As I contemplate Sundays past, I am reminded that Sunday should be a spiritually focused day--a day of calming, uplifting music, meditation and time spent reflecting. I have forgotten this day of spiritual recharge in the past few years. No matter your spiritual development or belief, I think it is essential to take time at least once a week to escape the confines of everyday life and break out of the day to day to contemplate the who am I and what am I doing here question--those times that you realize all of the contrivances of our lives and you wonder who and what you really are--pondering those questions that not even religion have seemed to really satisfy over the years. Religion has given an explanation but not a visceral answer to the fundamental question and wondering.


The most important parts of my life: my family, my mind, my thoughts and my preferred literature seem to regain their proper place in perspective when I have broken out of the humdrum. It seems to be easiest to make that break when a Sunday is devoted to spiritual matters, and service to one's fellow beings. I think it important that one serve selflessly from time to time--it is one of the most satisfying acts one can accomplish.