Note: On Fridays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there.
“I can do what I wanna do, be who I wanna be … I don’t have to be me ‘til Monday,” the old country song by Steve 
Azar says. Ah! We all know that glorious sense when the weekend comes or the kids go off to camp or something else happens that allows us a few precious hours to do and be whatever we want.
Do you ever long for a “break” in your spiritual life, for a few hours or moments of not having to be a model of the Gospel to your family, friends, and coworkers, when you can just be angry or mean or gossipy, when you can just be who you wanna be?
We all have those moments, and sometimes we give in to them. It feels great for a few fleeting seconds. Then the guilt and the sadness set in. We realize that while living the Gospel message of love and redemption is difficult and nigh onto impossible to do 24/7, the alternative to trying to do this hurts the Lord, those we have wronged, and ourselves. We realize the price of not preaching the Gospel by our words and actions and thoughts is too great to bear… and we start anew. And while it can be costly to us to do this, we know in our hearts and souls that the alternative may mean the loss of our salvation.
