How Do You Feel About Mondays?

It's Monday, the start of a new work week. If you're in Europe (and maybe other parts of the world) it's the start of a new week. I was surprised the first time I noticed that European calendars start the week with Monday instead of Sunday!

Many of us who work at a full-time nine-to-five job approach Monday with resignation ... sometimes even with dread. We've been able to do whatever we wanted to do on Saturday and Sunday. Now, on Monday, we have to do what we have to do. If we love our work it's less of a problem. But even great jobs come with irksome tasks and troublesome people. That's reality.

Others of us might dread Monday for another reason. The stay-at-home parent of young children is now left with sole custody of the little darlings, now that the other parent has gone to work. Older people with too much time on their hands are sorry that weekend visits from children and grandchildren are over until next time.

Do you look at Monday as a painful reality? Can you imagine a different scenario, when Monday -- or any day -- is a brand-new opportunity?

Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” 

How do you feel about Mondays? Tell me your story.....

"Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. I say to myself, 'The Lord is my portion; therefore I will wait for him.'" (Lamentations 3:22-24)