I know. I used to dread Monday, myself, but it has become one of the countless blessings I am getting to experience these days.
Pretty much the entire last year of Sunday afternoons (from about 3:00 on) that I worked at my grown up job was spent getting my mind into "work mode" and a little pit in my stomach would slowly grow, just thinking about the work week ahead. I didn't hate my job, or the people I worked with, but it wasn't my happy place either. (does that make sense?) Far too many of us spend Sunday afternoons in that way. The truth is that life is far shorter than we think, and if I am sure of anything, it is that God's plan for me was not to be living for Friday nights.
Dreading my Mondays (I dreaded it so much that I used to call Sunday afternoon Smonday) has become all but a faded memory for me, as it has been replaced with Sundays being spent enjoying (fully and completely) Sunday.
As it should be.
When you're in an uncertain place in your life, it's easy to get hung up on the what-ifs. What if I never find a good job? What if I can't sell all these crazy little paper banners and silly tags I'm making? What if suddenly all of the major appliances in my home break and I have no heat, water, or, God forbid, I lose the Hallmark channel? (The Christmas movies just started!)
I'm letting God handle those worries, and I'm instead handling the "I-get-tos". (The blessings!) I get to have a leisurely hot cocoa while I write my blog posts, and I get to experiment with new ideas for my projects in my oh-so-sunny work room. Helloooooo, I even get to job hunt in my pajammies. (Thankyouverymuch, 2017 technology.)
I don't mean for this post to sound all sappy, but I can tell you that I go to bed each night, Sunday included, in the same exact way. I say my prayers, and I then I mentally list the things I want to accomplish the next day. (I have to be careful how hard I think about those tomorrow plans, because I can get myself so excited about plans I have in my head that I actually cannot sleep.) Once I have my basic "get-to-do list" outlined in my mind's eye, I fall asleep counting my many, many blessings, one of which is Mondays.
I hope you are enjoying your Monday, too, my friends.
#Mondayfunday #livingthedream #luckygirl #blessed #tooblessedtobestressed
