You want that day to just represent delight, feasting, celebrating, rest, fun, and family time. What's up guys, Jeff and Jeremy, here another episode of Five Minute Fatherhood. Another question similar to this week's or last weeks, depending on when you're listening to the most recent episode. And that's from Margo. I believe I pronounced that right. Poplasky. Cool name. Let me know if we did

that right. And you commented on our seven day family course, which if you guys don't know, the seven day family, you can see it at family teams.com. We actually get like the e-course itself, the platform has an awesome comment section where people ask questions. You can read old comments from people who have gone through it as the same questions. We answer. It's fun. But we want to bring one to the, to the

podcast, because it's relevant. So she said, how do you handle sporting activities or extended

family gatherings or birthday parties that take place on the Sabbath? When do you make accommodations

and when do you say no? And what are your guiding principles? That's a really good question.

We probably both have different guiding principles. So let's both both answer that. Jeremy. I would say our family, I just, I feel like having honored, you know, Sabbath for, you know, five, six, seven years now. I feel like at first we were really, we cared more about this question. And I feel like I don't want this come off. Like I just, we just don't overthink it. It's just like if we want to go, we go. If we feel like it, like, and if we don't want to go, we don't go in the sense of just, is it filling? Is it restful? Is it? I feel like here's another way, here's another way to put it. Having honored Sabbath enough now, we can more, we can most easily identify the spirit of an event or a thing that just is like,

that's just contributing to the American idolatry of busyness and we need to say no,

right?

And just like, and not necessarily that event.

That event is not.

I'm talking about like scheduling that on your, on your calendar and always doing that all the

time.

Yeah.

You know, versus, oh oh my goodness this actually is the best sabbath event a birthday party with close friends a birthday part

you know a a night at another friend's house like we just want we want that day we i think

so many times people get very a little legalistic in a good way,

like in the sense of like we are people ask these questions usually first, meaning like it's when

you're really entering into it. Right. But I think it's better to go a little bit more with the

spirit. You want that day to just represent delight, feasting, celebrating, rest, fun, and family time.

And so with those filters, does that day represent that or not?

Now, there is totally exceptions where like obligated, meaning like, I don't, you know, I don't care if we feel like it's restful or not. Like, I'm not going to miss a wedding. I'm not going to miss a, you know what I mean, a certain birthday party. I'm not going to miss something that's maybe like a family or a health thing like that's ridiculous i'm not missing that that's different um but in just

like the oh should we or shouldn't miss something that's maybe like a family or a health thing. Like that's ridiculous. I'm not missing that. That's different. But in just like the, oh, should we or shouldn't we? Like, it's just like another invitation. That's how we tend to filter it. What would you say to that? Yeah, I would agree that that this is the kind of question that is really relevant and is really challenging the first, when your first couple of years of Sabbath keeping. Yeah.

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