My good friend Timothy Miller recently told me that he didn’t believe that God created heaven and earth in six days, then rested on the seventh day. His reasoning is that God took a lot of time, maybe years, to create what we call the universe.

What Timothy said got me to thinking – the six days of creation and seventh day of rest was not God’s construct. But we humans decided that this was what God decided. And after, we made it our own, and created a convenient time frame to go with it. Six days on and one day off; this fit with our biorhythms. And how convenient, on that seventh day, we began going to church. And on that seventh day we began to rest.

Alys and Siggi

Seven days off a month, 52 days off a year, in succession. This fits in with what most call the divine plan.

Has anyone, besides Timothy, and now me, given this any thought? If so, they’ve kept it to themselves because otherwise, the work/play ratio, which is 6-1 or 5-2 would come into question. Imagine it, heretics deciding to work one day a week and relax six days a week. This would throw the world’s economic system into a state of total disarray.

I know that I have it all wrong. And most likely many have followed my lead. I should be striving for the six days of relaxation, one day of work routine. Instead, I’m now working seven days a week. I didn’t mean for it to be this way, but this is now what it is.

Today is a good example of how things are not working. I tended to the horses, ate breakfast, then wrote my monthly People’s Paper article. It usually takes me a few days to write these articles. I’ve just been too tired in the evenings to do this. I have fallen asleep at my computer. The good thing is that I did work on it in my head, discarding one idea and coming up with another. So writing this article was fairly easy. Then I finished a second article entitled “I will run no race before my Time,” which is a rebuttal to another article, in which I claim that thinking in terms of personal best is preferable to winning.

Pete and I respectively rode Hrimmi and Tyra after lunch. The footing wasn’t to their liking, so they moved slowly.

Upon our return, I went back inside and made a list, one in which I wrote down pertinent information about village schools. I will be making calls tomorrow a.m. I did not want to spend three hours in the morning getting this information in order. As I was working, I came up with an idea, which is to include a survey with the outgoing boxes. I also am going to approach the Palmer Lion’s Club about funding the next round of outgoing village boxes.

Lastly, I edited a grant request letter that Pete wrote. We have a lot at stake here – the Mat Su Health Foundation will decide on the basis of this letter if we should submit a full-blown grant proposal.

All this, on a Sunday. I’m due for a seven full days of rest.

Next: 97. 4/8/24: More Sun, More Daylight = More Energy