Easy Like Sunday Morning

Driving home last night from an activity, the song came on the radio with the chorus line of "Easy Like Sunday Morning." SCREEEECCCHHHH.... wait a second here...

Sunday mornings are easy?

My typical Sunday morning is chaos. Dear husband is gone to Sunday meetings, leaving me alone to run around gathering up all the "entertainment" for church. I must get breakfast for four hungry people as well as getting the four of us dressed and looking presentable. Sometimes we forget things- lesson manuals, scriptures, tithing, handouts... and sometimes we're late... what's worse is we are the closest members to the building in the entire branch!! Sometimes we both have early morning meetings adding even more to the chaos.

Another interesting coincidence in the last four days was that we had Stake Conference. We had an amazing Stake Conference! In our Saturday evening adult session, we had a discussion about "Go to the house of Prayer.... and offer up thy sacraments" (D&C 59:9-10).

I see a pattern here. I think.

I learned quite a few things I can do to make things easy like Sunday morning. The first thing that stuck out in my mind was that preparation begins on Saturday, not when I get up on Sunday morning. The most important part of Sunday worship is partaking of the Sacrament. Remembering the sacrifice made for us by our Savior and covenanting again. An interesting comment made was that we can offer up our sacraments by letting go of the things that set us back, in other words- we repent and covenant to do better and be better.

Bishop Burton of the Presiding Bishopric also said he hoped we felt passion about the gospel and counseled us to use our gifts to bless the lives of those around us. It was a very inspiring conference. What I took away from it was a resolution to do a little better on Sunday mornings.

Easy like Sunday morning will yet happen in my life.