"The Sabbath is a weekly dress rehearsal for heaven." - Ray Ortlund, Jr.
Van Voorsts take the Lord's Day seriously. On it, we follow very strictly our two rules:
(1) Obey and (2) Have Fun!
We look forward to Sundays every week. We eat breakfast together in paper bowls so that there aren't any dishes to do. I make my special coffee with frothed milk and creamer. We go to church together and worship our God with our people. We pick up food on the way home and eat together and again, there is no clean up required. We read and relax and play and then head to nap around 2. We all get up by 5 and have cereal for breakfast in, you guessed it, paper bowls to again eliminate dishes. We head downstairs for family movie night, pile onto the sectional, get under the covers and enjoy our evening together. One team, one dream: to love God and to love each other together forever.
We are practicing for eternity. We want to be ready to enjoy where we're going. Although, to be fair, heaven is not home, the new earth is. So our weekly practice is rooted in things like eating and sleeping and hugging and laughing because that is a clearer picture of eternity than floating on the clouds without a care in the world. If anything, the new earth and eternity will be concerned only with cares of that world, the perfect place for us to be perfected by the Pioneer and Perfector of our faith, Jesus.
We want to walk into eternity prepared to have our minds blown away, but also prepared as possible to immediately enjoy as much of it as possible. And that is why we take practice so seriously. That is why we are so devoted to delight.
Matthew 25:21, 23
His master said to him, "Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master."
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