Perfect football weekend

I am going to write this weekend down in the history books.  I am not sure it can ever be repeated.  It was the perfect football weekend for the Wohlhuter house.  Let me explain...first the Gophers won, then the Hawkeyes lost, then the Huskers lost, then the Vikings won, and then the Packers lost.  Folks, life doesn't get any better than that!  The perfect football weekend was had. There was dancing in the streets, champagne corks being popped, and fun and frivolity happening all around the parsonage.  Ok, maybe not all that, but I don't think the perfect football weekend has happened before, and it may never happen again so I enjoyed it.
Now I have an exercise for you.  I want you to close your eyes and imagine the perfect weekend.  Can you see it...what is the perfect weekend?  And does that perfect weekend include a worship service at church?  I can hear the tires screeching to a halt...church and perfect weekend?!?!  Is that an oxymoron?  I would be curious to know how many people had worship plans in their perfect weekend?  If I'm honest, I'm not sure I had a church worship service in mind when I was dreaming about the perfect weekend either.  Why don't we include church in our idea of a perfect weekend?  Is it because church is something we do if we have time instead of making time for it?  Is it because church is pretty low on the priority list for weekend projects? 
Ok, I admit I might be stretching it a bit thinking a church worship service should be included in our thoughts of a perfect weekend, but I don't think I'm stretching it too much to ask us to think where Sunday worship is on our weekend priority list.  Sunday worship is one of the primary ways we can grow our relationship with God, so why is it so easy to blow it off?  If we want our relationship with God to improve wouldn't it be prudent to move one of the primary ways we can connect with and learn more about the Spirit in our lives up the priority list?  I would certainly think so.  If you want to get better at cooking, playing the piano, etc. how do you do it?  You go to classes to learn.  You practice using the skill, and more than likely you seek out people who already are good at the thing you want to learn.  Well, if you want more of God in your life then the same principles apply.  You need to work on making the connection and growing your faith.  A very good way to do that is to attend a worship service with people who are seeking the same thing.  Too often it is way to easy to blow off Sunday worship.  Then when we want that deep meaningful connection with God we wonder why we can't connect so easily.  Well, when you don't practice it's hard to pick something up and be good at it right away isn't it.  Work at connecting with God and you will be be amazed at how the relationship can grow.  Sunday worship is a great place to start.