Friday; June 30
When I was growing up there was an emphasis on our “Sunday Best”. When we went to church, we were encouraged to put on our best clothes and look our best for our time in and with the church. Your best might have been a suit and tie, hat and dress or maybe even your best overalls and a clean white shirt, but there was an expectation you would dress for the occasion. Another aspect of our Sunday Best was in our behavior. Not only did you dress better, you tended to live better. In addition to attending church services on Sunday a lot of people took that day off from work (or limited what they did on their farms or in the fields to what was absolutely necessary). There were “Blue Laws” that restricted things that could be sold or done on Sunday. Yet, maybe the most defining part of living our Sunday Best was a focus on more spiritual things. “Saturday Night Sinning” was replaced with living like “Sunday Morning Saints”. Our society has gotten away from the idea of Sunday Best – a