When someone finds out that I am a pastor, I will often be asked “So what do you do the other 6 days of the week?”
Besides the obvious, 16 hours of daily prayer, bible study and fasting, there are a ton of exciting things to do.
My church is currently doing a teaching series on the balance of family life, and so I have been more aware of doing some fun and different things with my girls so that they will ask questions or have fun. The goal is to take a little bit of the frantic-ness out of our lives.
After some conversation with our 7 year old about the dishwasher, we made a hypothesis about what happens to get the dishes clean. One guess was that little guys come out from a trap door and scrub the dishes with little brushes (mine). The other guess involved a lot of bubbles (Eden’s).
So yesterday Bethany and I took some video of what happens in the dish washer. We set up a light in a Tupperware food bin so that we could see the the little guys come out and scrub our dishes what happens inside the dishwasher.
Bethany’s input to the project was to make sure her Elmo plate was washed, so he was given a staring role.
The footage proved to be less dramatic than either hypothesis, but fun none the less. It also is a good opportunity for some good creative thinking and conversation.
Back to the question at hand, “What do I do the other 6 days that are not Sunday?” My week is filled with planning worship, youth group, pastoral care, cross country practice, meetings, paperwork, juggling and putting out the occasional fire just to name a few things. While all of the work stuff chips away at my time I try and fight for the family time and make that a priority. I don’t always do great at it, but when I do it is super fun and that is the encouragement to do it more.
Next stop… The dryer
