Hello
Emmanuel,
Happy
rainy, yucky Monday. I admit, I don’t
relate with a lot of people and their perspective on Mondays. My work week doesn’t start on Monday. I’m not sure when it starts. Sunday?
Wednesday? I guess it depends on
what my week entails. Either way, I know
most normal people see Monday as the beginning of another week of working to
pay off bills.
Still,
that doesn’t mean it can’t be a happy one.
Consider that, on Monday, the week is still a blank slate. You have some influence on how it will
go. By Wednesday or Thursday, you will
have already decided how your week has gone and there is no changing that. But today?
Today you get the opportunity to try and make your week go as well as
you can. Be optimistic.
Optimism
is something I had to learn. It wasn’t a
default in our home or community growing up.
If I were honest, I’d admit that I initially decided to be optimistic in
order to rebel against the negative status quo.
Once I learned that optimism had its own perks, I stuck with it. Then I became a pastor…. Hmmmm…
I
saw in a recent blog that pastoring is a highly discouraging career. I won’t disagree, however I don’t think that
is so unlike other professions. It’s too
easy for many working people to become the abject pessimist around their work
for various reasons: people don’t think;
the job doesn’t pay; there is no room to grow; it’s boring; the boss is bossy;
the work place is a mess; someone stole my lunch….. blah, blah, blah.
But
it’s Monday. No one has yet decided how
your week will go. And while you may not
have much to say about what happens around you, you have everything to say
about your attitude. Think like God has
been good to you. Walk like God has been
good to you. Talk like God has been good
to you. Live like it. You might be surprised. You might become someone’s ray of sunshine on
a gray, wet, yucky Monday.
Besides,
God HAS been good to you. Isn’t that all
the reason you need to be the optimist?
God
is Good,
Pastor
Joe
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