Managing Mondays

Well, it is yet another Monday. Almost like Sunday, Monday gets things said about it that the other 5 days don’t have said about them. Monday is like “do-over” or “start-over.” Yet it really is just a continuation of another cycle of time. Time is all the same, it’s what we place into time that is different. So Monday takes its place and stands there sort of a reminder of the worth of our life’s entanglements. As a general application of the rule-of-our-life, it is more valuable than the “restoration” of our Sundays. We’ve come to use Sundays as a more spiritual day which is probably wrong of us. To the Lord which bought us, every day is the same! But, …old habits, right?

Monday is more of a re-evaluation of what we are going to spend our time doing, what the time will render unto us, etc. If your normal work week is closely monitored this week, how do you, at this moment, while you’re reading this—how do you believe you will come out next Sunday? When you re-think this week (next Sunday evening), how will next Monday morning’s re-eval look to you? Now is the best time to determine (set a goal) to have more positive events this week than last, ergo: less negativity.

The morning started with the SIMH: “Precious Lord, Take My Hand”—by a man named Thomas Dorsey (that’s not Tommy Dorsey, the orchestra leader), but also added verses by more than one person, including Elvis. Many people have recorded this great hymn, but I think my mind runs to my Father singing it as he worked than any other.

I have several songs which roll around in my mind when I think of his approach to his workday. I don’t know how often he might have ever done what I suggested in the top two paragraphs, but I do know he was just about 100% positive in his expectations. Never heard him use very many negative tones concerning what he did or was doing. One of his sayings was, “Ah, we’ve got to make it, we’re gonna make it!” —that’s a very positive approach.

It’s interesting, when I come to write about the SIMH each day, I look up the lyricist and that prompts good old Google to find me bunches of versions of the song. So it was today, and good versions of it. What followed on a Gaither video was another of my Dad’s favorites: “What a Day, Glorious Day That Will Be!” And surely it will be.

Well, being a positive Monday is beckoning. Hope you have a great day, week, or for ever what length of time your goals are set. For me, I think it’s going to be a great finish to the year!

Thanks for reading, the Elder