For example:
Chocolate
Cough/Cold medicine
Feminine Hygiene
Bread
Diet Coke (or drink of your preference)
etc.
You get where I'm going with this right?
Something that you feel necessary at that exact moment.
Don't you always find yourself needing an item on Sunday?
The day you shouldn't just run down to the store and buy it.
This has happened to me on more than one occasion.
I will not tell a lie.
I have broken the Sabbath for certain items.
- Cough/Cold medicine for a very sick child.
- Feminine Hygiene.....I mean really it was an unexpected need, you can't go without.
- Bread. It's true! One Sunday morning the Deacon's quorum could NOT find bread at any home. So I lied and said I had some, and off to Albertsons before church. What to do? Not have bread at the Sacrament.
- Diet Coke for medicinal purposes for a BAD migraine.
Now, I have not broken the Sabbath for chocolate. I have, however, borrowed chocolate chips from a neighbor so we could make cookies to appease our chocolate fix.
I planned ahead and now have an agreement with a few friends in the neighborhood who keep Diet Coke on hand to always provide me in an emergency.
Now for the clarification part. Today, I wanted not needed a Diet Coke. (I am really trying to cut back so I don't keep it in stock) So, having heard what a brother (who will not be named) that lives in my ward does to get his Mountain Dew fix. I did what he does.
He goes to the vending machine that sits outside Petersons Marketplace. Is this technically breaking the Sabbath? You only put coins in a machine. It does not require anyone to work to serve you. It is not a place of business. It is a vending machine sitting outside. :) I popped by on the way home from church. Ridiculous I know.
But now the question....Is this technically still breaking the Sabbath? Just wonderin' your thoughts. Some random thing to think about.
