enjoying naps

[upbeatjonm]

Is it any kind of sin to enjoy taking a nap, even when not especially tired? I often like to take a 30 minute nap after work. Sometimes I feel guilty about not using this time for something more productive.

 

[PolarGuy]

I don’t know what’s worse - the fact that people ask questions like these, or the fact that other posters will fall all over themselves answering.

This post is yet another in the unending parade of posts which cause lurkers to wonder if Catholics are sin obsessed.

Leaving, incredulous.

 

[underacloud]

It’s not a sin to take naps, but it is a sin to enjoy them.

Just kidding of course. No sin at all, assuming you’re not wantonly neglecting any particular duties. The body needs rest and recuperation.

 

[upbeatjonm]

It’s not a sin to take naps, but it is a sin to enjoy them.

Just kidding of course. No sin at all, assuming you’re not wantonly neglecting any particular duties. The body needs rest and recuperation.

Well, I supposed that. I am reading a book called Bonhoeffer, by Eric Metaxas, in which he accomplished so much in a given day, and made me feel a bit lazy.

 

[upbeatjonm]

I don’t know what’s worse - the fact that people ask questions like these, or the fact that other posters will fall all over themselves answering.

This post is yet another in the unending parade of posts which cause lurkers to wonder if Catholics are sin obsessed.

Leaving, incredulous.

I know what you mean, and I feel the same about other posts. Now I am one of them! Good thing I didn’t say that I also feel bad feeding the birds with starving people in the world.

 

[Jeanne_S]

I know what you mean, and I feel the same about other posts. Now I am one of them! Good thing I didn’t say that I also feel bad feeding the birds with starving people in the world.

Ahh,but you just did!

 

[GEddie]

I know what you mean, and I feel the same about other posts. Now I am one of them! Good thing I didn’t say that I also feel bad feeding the birds with starving people in the world.

Not to feel guilty.

Birds play a vital role in the ecosystem, whence food comes.

And the human body doesn’t get much sustenance from bird seed anyhow.

ICXC NIKA

 

[GEddie]

We are supposed to enjoy our aliveness, ISTM, and part of that is occasionally just to lie down and breathe!!

A priestly amigo of mine once said: “Never stand when you can sit; never sit when you can lie down.”

ICXC NIKA

 

[Purgatory_Pete]

A priestly amigo of mine once said: “Never stand when you can sit; never sit when you can lie down.”
ICXC NIKA

And I might add “Never lie down when you can dream.”
:tiphat:

 

[SuS33]

No dear of course it’s not. Americans over work themselves and do not understand the need to rest. Maybe not all but in general still. I take like a 2-3 hour nap on my days off. I don’t nap after work cuz I simply have no time. But if I did then yes I would. Over working and over stressing your body is kinda a sin, your body is a temple of God, take good care of it.

Of course I’m not saying take a 3 hour nap like me!

Peace

 

[pianistclare]

Our former pastor said that in seminary there was a whole “theology of naps”. His professor said no priest can survive without naps… they’re on call so much of the time.