College Soccer, Holy Days, Sports

    I have been blogging for many years; many (possibly most?) of my posts have been relating to sports. Sports are emblematic and metaphorical, and are historically and visually stimulating. Some writers and those of some keen knowledge say that if you cannot write about sports, you cannot write.

    Many Christians believe the Sabbath is a day of rest, and the day of the Lord, therefore working and many worldly recreations are avoided. We know that many us have to work on Sabbath days as doctors, service people, emergency responders, while thousands and millions of others recreate in venues where workers are required, to include sporting events and restaurants, and of course gas stations, which I have used amply across the years and decades, because travel tends to be more available this day of the weekend, on a non-work days, which is very often Sunday.

    I like that my alma mater in Provo, Utah, chooses to not play sports on Sundays. This is very rare in the United States. Most schools at a collegiate level consider Sundays to be a fine time for games and leisure. Liberty University and Grand Canyon are playing soccer matches today. These are ostensibly Christian schools, so according to their interpretation of the Ten Commandments and the Lord's Day, perhaps going to church and then spending some time out on the town and watching soccer or baseball or football is fine and dandy. Maybe the Evangelical roots of the south resisted professional football on the Sabbath for so long for some of these reasons? Not sure about NASCAR and Sunday races...

    Again, burning rubber, using gas and diesel, driving vehicles may not seem to be as much work as working a cash register, chopping trees, working the fields. Or swing a bat or bouncing a basketball.

    We kick it through the uprights and we praise the Lord. Of course, this is not counting the growing numbers of nones, or non-believers, or people who do not consider themselves of any faith system.

    So, Sunday has become another workday for many. 

    I have worked many a Sabbath over the years. Part of the way of our world. Some of us work on those days so that others do not have to.

    So, not trying to be too hypocritical here. But the Ten Commandments are meant to bless us, and we are blessed when we dedicate more time and thought and notions, to Him who created the rules.

    So be it. 

    Go BYU.