Thanksgiving Sabbath

Thanksgiving was great.  I kept thinking how happy I was that Thursday was not the day of the week I had picked for Sabbath.  Thanksgiving = giving thanks.  Thanksgiving does NOT= rest!
We cooked, we took a long walk, we ate, we watched football, we made cookies for the Mission Jamaica Bake sale.  It was lovely and festive and fun.  I can't imagine doing it any other way. But I started feeling guilty because it wasn't very restful.  Should Thanksgiving be restful?  I had never thought of it as necessary but now that I have Sabbath on the brain it seemed like I should be changing it up. Or should we? Yikes, I feel a little stressed trying to figure out how to make Thanksgiving happen without a flutter of activity. The thought of  NOT being busy is now making me a little anxious frankly!

I have decided that for us, it's Okay to be busy, and have a full day,
as long as it doesn't become so stressful that I'm biting the heads off of my family members. I guess that's why there is a time for everything under heaven.  Not all days are meant to be Sabbath days.  Not all Sabbath days are meant to be the same.  If you are building in Sabbath time, remember to build in variety!  And when you add Sabbath time into your schedule remember that it is meant to compliment the rest of your week, not complicate it!