Aurelia,
It isn’t necessarily wrong, but there is something about choosing some time for striving to instill in our children that we have been asked to keep a day holy. If it God’s will that you go shopping to give yourself a break, then that is holy. I can’t say what is holy for you. I do understand the shopping with kids thing all too well.:yup:
I guess I fear that so many Catholics – not you – don’t quite have a good reverence for the sacrament – say not eating after receiving Jesus for at least half an hour – more is better.
Some people can’t even stay at Mass after receiving – where are they going? I don’t know. I am sure some of them have something very important to do and took time out to go to Mass and that is very good. However, I know that some of the members of my parish just want to get a jump on leaving the parking lot.
I have a difficult son and had a medically handicapped daughter, I have been stressed out and spiritually depleted more than once. I also had a husband who worked six days a week and went back to college. I did take some time on Sundays to care for me. I still do, but in different ways now. Although I have my only child in the first grade and have a little more freedom – I did just go through summer with my son who hates to shop. (Won’t he be a man among men?)
I have also gone out after my husband got home we had dinner – somewhere around 8:00 at night I would go take a leisurely grocery shopping trip. Silly, but I had a chance to read labels, etc. Sometimes that was nice enough for me. Sometimes it didn’t come close.
I don’t dare suggest that all of us can do what I do, but I hoped that I gave the people who could make a choice to live without the grocery store for one day to try it. We have managed to get around it and I am ADHD as they get. So, there are always things I forgot to buy --or put on the list. I am not trying to tell you or anyone they are bad, but maybe some of us can do it.
