A plea

Today I am writing a plea for help.

It's about days off.

We all need them. Some of us are such workaholics or whatever that we don't think we need rest. Others are so lazy as always to need it!

I'm not lazy but I need my one day in seven. That's not to say I'm a Sabbatarian in sense that we usually mean by it - I'm a Sabbatarian in that I believe the OT sabbath foreshadows the Sabbath-rest that is to come in the age to come... but I'm not a Sunday-replaces-Saturday type of Sabbatarian (as an aside, if the Westminster Confession handled the OT law better I'd be a card-carrying Pressie. But the Sabbath is one area they clearly fell down).

It's just that I go nuts if I don't get a day off. And I need a full 24 hours off. Hey, I'm not prescribing this: I know others who take their 'day off' in 1 hour blocks throughout the week (which also suggests you're not allowed 'down time' unless it's your 'day off', a dangerous consequence!).

Anyway, my list of day-off 'things to do' is so long, and I never get anything done from that list. Why? Because the family thinks that the 'day off' is their day. And to be resentful of this would be sacrilegious (although the temptation sometimes overflows into sin in this regard).

So how can I have a 'day off' that lets me just put my feet up, work on the model railway (which I was given so I'd have a hobby!), work on my 'virtual trainz' on the PC, and read books as well as catch up on the newspaper.... and fit the family in?

Advice please!