It's officially Monday. A new work week. A week filled with meetings, stress, and the unknown. I think that's what scares me about Mondays. What will I wake up to? What awaits me at work? What have I not done or done incorrectly?
Monday is a paradox for me. It's that fear of the unknown for the next seven days, but also a fresh start.
I'm not instinctively a pessimist. I've always had the tendency to see the good in most people and situations. Here lately I've been a mess. Angry and jaded. I don't know when I'll snap out of it, but I do hope that I will. I'm realizing that I have a choice on how I look at the world and I like the old view better.
I think today I will embrace the idea of Monday being a fresh start and hope for good things. I do believe that we create our reality. If I think that everyone is against me and the world is out to go get me, it will-because I've allowed it to.
On a spiritual note, I think we open the door to oppression when we turn our thoughts over to the "dark side" (yeah, there's a little Star Wars theology for ya). It's like we open the front door to our house and announce on a megaphone, "My door is open for anyone who would like to come in! Bring your friends depression, hate, jealousy, anger, faithlessness, distrust, etc." When we invite them, they come.
Today, I'm going to close the door and try not to open it when these "visitors" come knocking. My challenge is to do this all week. The visitors are always knocking at all our doors. Depending on where we are in life depends on if we even notice them.
So here's what I'm thinking: At some point we have to own up to the reality that we are in control. I put too much of this responsibility back on God. I have the free will to decide how I'm going to react to the world around me and what I allow myself to feel.
Here's to "a case of the Mondays!" May yours be a "case" of goodness!
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