Happy Fun Day

Yesterday was a "Happy Fun Day." Since we travel often, we sometimes go a while without taking a whole day off. Even when we are at home, we've got a lot of things to do such as talking on the phone, answering e-mails, repairing equipment that broke on our last trip, getting ready to go out again, working on our new dvd, and so much more. This can get very tiresome, and I'm afraid that it may eventually lead to burnout.

I just read Exodus. In The Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:8), the Lord clearly says that you can work six days out of the week, but you must rest one day. So many Sundays we are out on the road working. Therefore, we decided to try this Happy Fun Day. A Happy Fun Day is one day that we select out of the week to not work. The rule is that we can talk about work casually with friends if we want, but we must not actually work (go to brockgill.com to find out more abut what we do). Also, we must spend a lot of time with the Lord.

Yesterday was awesome! The snow melted away, and it turned into a beautiful day. After sleeping in until 9:30am (Brock didn't get home until after 2am that morning working on the dvd), we had a casual morning at the house. Then, we went to the gym and worked out. After our workout, we drove to a beautiful spot on top of a mountain and read our own personal Bible studies. We shared with each other what we were learning. Next, we went to a skatepark. Everything was great until I crashed HARD! We both decided that skateboarding is not for me. I just cannot get it. I'm not coordinated enough, but Brock is going to continue. He's a natural skater.

By the time we left the skatepark, it was 4:30pm. We went to the mall, the Christian bookstore, and a couple of motorcycle shops until it was time to meet our friends for dinner at 7:30. We ate at this wonderful place in Franklin, TN called The Saffire. We had a great time chatting with our dear friends. I began to feel pain from my fall at the skatepark more and more as we got further into the night, so we left after dinner to go home and just watch some tv. It was truly a fabulous day of allowing our minds to escape the stresses of work and spending quality time together as well as with the Lord.