What to do on a Sunday afternoon

[Jenn]

When I was trapped in a Fundy mindset, Sunday was the most miserable day of the week for me, even when I was no longer attending a fundy church. I would come home from church, eat lunch, and then be determined to have serious devotions before doing anything else. I would stare at whatever I was trying to read for a long time and become increasingly tired. Then I would remind myself that I could in good conscience take a nap, because it is the day of rest. So I would fall asleep on the couch. Then wake up and turn on the t.v. Then maybe just maybe finish that Bible reading and prayer, but always with an incredible amount of guilt about how much of a chore it is, and how I'd rather be doing something else.

Monday morning I could shed off the Sunday guilt and proceed to the weekday guilt of not witnessing to people.

[exIFB]

I live with this everyday. One of the things that I am struggling to let go of.

[hac84]

What to do on Sunday afternoon? Work a bus route you deadbeat! Go to a Buffet and then get yerself back to church for singin' practice. (J/:K)

[FormerFundy]

I'm cured of that.

I watch football during football season and baseball during baseball season..

[Jenn]

My solution to my grief over devotionals was to quit having them. I am in a small group now where I have to do a Bible study every day, and it is giving me anxiety. I went from not being able to ask questions about anything, to always having a flood of questions enter my brain whenever I get into the Bible. I hate feeling like a cynic, and I just want some peace in my soul.

[ginty2]

when i was under that sort of thing, i went to this antique shop near my parents' house and spent most of the afternoon there. when i was in college, i always had a job with random days off. i figured that going to church was like work anyway so if i'm going to have to work, why not do work that got me paid?

while at college i either read books or played games on sunday afternoon. it was a lost day

[Darrell]

At my Fundy U Sundays often looked like this:

Up at 6:30
Run to breakfast before choir rehearsal
Warm up and sing the first service
More Rehearsal
Sing the second service
Eat lunch in 15 minutes
Run to Vespers warmup
Sing in Vespers.
Run to sign language class
Run to evening church
Run to grab my box lunch for dinner

Sit in the commons completely exhausted and listen to the chaps telling people that they can't play ping-pong on Sunday because it's a "day of rest"

[Perry]

In addition to bus routes, my church had Sunday afternoon street preaching and soulwinning between services. I rarely participated because I used Sunday afternoons as time to get caught up on homework.