How long does it take you to get to church? If you live in a big city, get ready to fight jealousy. It takes us less than 15 minutes. Ten minutes if we sin—I mean, speed—and about twelve if we catch what my wife calls the “green wave,” all-green traffic lights.
Over time, our rides to church have developed into a joy and a spiritual tool used by the Lord. I’d like to make three suggestions of how you might too enjoy your Sunday morning commute.
1. Sing!
I once went to a church that gave each member a church-made hymnbook. It fit in our glove compartment, so we began to sing on the way to church. At the time, my daughter Eliana was about a year old. Rather quickly, she picked up many of the songs and began to expect that we would sing hymns every time we drove anywhere. We had to teach her that normally we only sing hymns in the car on Sundays.
Sunday Singing has become a normal and joyful part of our commute. Instead of just being frustrated with traffic and semi-annoyed at that same children’s CD we’ve heard for the umpteenth time, we
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