Today was a day of reflection for me.  I rested much of the day, sore from the past workouts.  My older two boys decided that they wanted to go to church tonight instead of yesterday morning, which is generally fine with me.  (Daddy lets them help with offering on Monday nights.)
My husband often does more of a bible study format sermon on Monday nights, slightly less formal than Sunday mornings.  Tonight we talked about Isaiah 55 and how often we spend our energies on things in life that, ultimately, do not make us happy.  
                  Why spend money on what is not bread, 
                             and your labor on what does not satisfy? (Isaiah 55:2)

C.S. Lewis says it like this: “Human history is the long terrible story of man trying to find something, other than God, which will make him happy.”  How true and how sad.

How often do we focus on things that don't matter in the long run?  And how often do we brush aside issues, such as eternal life, that do matter?  Can we look at our lives and honestly say that we live each day in God's word?

It's amazing how that can apply to so much more in our lives than our church attendance.  How often do we crave the unfulfilling calories of that slice of cheesecake?  How often do we covet that bigger house or the nicer car?  In the long run, those things just don't matter.  Your family, your health, your relationship with God - those are the things that matter.