The Sunday Post - 1st Edition Issue

Welcome to the 1st Edition of The Sunday Post!

The whole idea of The Sunday Post is to help keep me writing and thinking, to provide my random thoughts that occurred on each passing Sunday, and to simply promote positive thoughts. I thought about starting this a few Sundays ago but I kept putting it off for no apparent reason. Now, though, I have finally gotten the gumption to sit down and start it.

So, today I was reluctant to awake(which seems to be the case a lot these days), but it was more so today thanks to the previous days events that kept me up later than expected. Which, in turn, made me press my snooze more times than necessary which then continues the domino effect of me getting up late, getting ready late, and getting to church late. Now, if you know me well enough you would know that I'm usually on time to everything, and in the rare case that I am late it is usually never more than five minutes. Today though...... All I can say is thanks to my two sisters and my brother-in-law, and it being my birthday and all yesterday, that that is an excuse enough to me sleeping in longer than normal and being roughly 30 minutes late to church. Oops, right? :D Oh well.

This Sunday, like the last couple, it has been hard to focus on anything. Especially sacrament meeting. It is like I some how developed a weird form of A.D.D. spontaneously. Today I would be listening to the speaker then two minutes later I'm watching someone leave only to find myself now looking around on the other side of the room, now I'm paying attention to the two music people up front having a conversation, then back to the speaker, so on and so forth. I'm the type of person who can easily sit, look, and listen to the speaker and every word they say, even to the point where I sit and count how many times they say "uh" or "um", that is how attentive and focused I normally am. So what happened?! I have no idea, but I am definitely curious to how this will progress.

Today was also our "Linger Longer" day. Once a month we have what we call "Linger Longer", it is a social event that takes place after church is over where whoever wants to stay and talk or whatever can, and the cherry on top or the icing on the cake is that there is food. You come to linger a bit longer while eating food and getting to know people. This month we had cereal for the food which was fine, a change up that's for sure. I normally sit at a table with a new face there so I can get to know more people but I didn't today, I had simply conformed to just sitting with a couple people that I am already friends with. I would of sat elsewhere for sure, because I had my eye on someone(yes a girl), but she wasn't present at the "Linger Longer".

The Sunday Post will be done every Sunday, I will try to keep it roughly around the same time frame. Like I mentioned before, the whole idea of this is to keep me writing and thinking, to open a small view hole into what is my life and so-called existence, and to provide positive thoughts. I have been, and apparently, still am in a rough patch where nothing seems to be working the way I want them to or need them to, regardless of the fact of what I do and don't do and all the prayers that have been said. So with that being said I felt compelled to put a quote up at the end of each blog post done by The Sunday Post that will relate to my current standing in life and my thoughts. Seeing that I haven't been able to get a job in a year, I thought that enduring to the end is appropriate and very important, so this quote comes from Dieter F. Uchtdorf of the Twelve Apostles(one of my favorites, which makes it great for this first edition).

Quote:

"Enduring to the end is not just a matter of passively tolerating life's difficult circumstances or 'hanging in there.' Ours is an active religion, helping God's children along the strait and narrow path to develop their full potential during this life and return to Him one day. Viewed from this perspective, enduring to the end is exalting and glorious, not grim and gloomy. This is a joyful religion, one of hope, strength, and deliverance. 'Adam fell that men might be; and men are, that they might have joy' (2 Nephi 2:25).

"Enduring to the end is a process filling every minute of our life, every hour, every day, from sunrise to sunrise. It is accomplished through personal discipline following the commandments of God."

End Quote
This quote is found in this topic title - "Have We Not Reason to Rejoice?" Ensign, Nov. 2007, 20.