Do your Monday thoughts begin on Sunday?
For years (though I love my job) I would awaken on Sunday mornings with regret in my heart … for once Sunday had come to it’s natural end, Monday followed. It was as though the door to Monday was already being opened on Sunday, leaving a dark shadow of the end of the weekend before it had even finished.
It is good that we can enjoy of ‘off’ days, our fun days, our free time days. It is not good, though, when we wish away time, in search of other time.
The NIV (New International Version) of Psalm 90:12 tells us:
“teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.”
but it is in the New Living Translation that more clarity of meaning is communicated:
“teach us to realize the brevity of life,
so that we may grow in wisdom.”
Brevity … how short our life’s span.
These Sundays of awakening with thoughts of regret for the end of the weekend, the Spring Break, the holidays … these are moments when we are not acknowledging the brevity of our lives (and I am most certainly, guilty of such thoughts). These are moments when we are not availing ourselves to the wisdom that God gives.
Welcome to Monday … what a privilege to be here!
itsawonderfilledlife 