Wow this thread has taken some strange turns. Back to the Wrestling on Sunday. I have been involved in Kansas Wrestling with my kids for 6 years now. I've started three of my six sons wrestling here (two started in another state where we moved from, one will start next year) and we have never wrestled on a Sunday. Yes my kids starting as 6&under have taken a beating, but they have also given a few out. The thing that is hard to swallow is when your son makes it to the state Tournament knowing that the best he can do is 2nd if he is able to win all his matches on Saturday, or not place if he happens to lose on Saturday. I'm not asking for a change but it is something that is hard to face. Yes wrestling is mentioned in the Bible but isn't Keeping the Sabbath day holy one of the big 10.

Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it. (Exodus 20:1-17)

I have taken some lumps as a parent from coaches and parents for teaching my son’s this principal but in the end when my son did qualify for state a few years ago I don’t think I could have been prouder of him if he had won the whole thing then when he was given the choice to travel with a coach and go back and wrestle on Sunday when he said and I quote “ Dad, (holding his hands like scales) wrestling or our father in heaven, that’s a no brainer, I’ll get my church clothes on.”

I love wrestling, I really like what it teaches my sons, I just wish (and I know it is just a wish) we could give more kids that are getting into sports the same opportunities I had when I was young. We didn’t do all of these things on Sunday but some how we still managed to get a lot of wrestling (and other sports) in and not have to miss out or be benched because you had believes that were stronger then practice or games on Sunday. I really wonder sometimes when I look at all the new and more difficult problems our children face in today’s world if maybe the lack of respect we give those Ten Commandments might be some of the problem, and could also be more of a solution if we followed them.

Wow now that was a rant.