The Church In My Mind.

When I was a young attorney, I worked all the time.  By "all the time," I mean every day of the week.  Actually, I've worked all the time as an attorney until recently taking this job.  Thank God for government work!  Anyway, I was commonly asked to come in over the weekend and work.  When I first started, I worked at a firm called Skadden Arps and would regularly find myself working from early Sunday morning through the evening.  In other words, I got no weekend.  So....I decided to make sure that I got at least a little time by telling the people I worked with that I couldn't come in first thing Sunday morning because I had to go to church.  This worked pretty well and basically stopped me from ever having to work another Sunday morning for the remaining 10 years of my work as an attorney in Los Angeles (I carried the principle over when I switched firms).  (The thought of working on Sunday hasn't even occurred to the people I work with now so I haven't had to use this yet.  But I will, it's like second nature to me now.)  Now...I'm not a big church goer.  I'm actually not so religious.  I've heard several people say that they're spiritual but not religious.  I probably don't fit into either category.  I'm a big sleeper.  My favorite part of the day is when I'm nestled in my bed getting ready to sleep.  I have the whole night ahead of me.  I like sleeping!  What I usually did was sleep in Sunday mornings (which is exactly why God made them....).  After a few years, I actually made some friends (amazing) and started to hike regularly on Sunday mornings.  I always thought about that as my "church time" and developed an internal doctrine that I named "the church in my mind."  When I wasn't asking my friends about which movie star was having who's child that week, I was thinking about the basic foundations of my church.

 

Here are some basic tenets of The Church In My Mind:

 

-- be cool to people or it will come back to haunt you (big time).

-- TV is good for you.

-- sleep at every opportunity.

-- get off your duff, plants can't water themselves.

-- you may not feel like working out today but you'll feel worse tomorrow if you don't.

-- Captain Crunch, while delicious, will tear up the inside of your mouth and it's not worth it.

-- you'll get a headache if you don't drink enough water.

-- better just do what needs to be done now because otherwise it'll bug you.

-- it is not possible to enjoy anything you take too seriously.

-- Sunday afternoon is the best time to see a movie (otherwise known to the partners I worked for as a day-long church seminar).

 

Amen.