Good Monday Is Not an Oxymoron.
Monday: Day of the Moon (Galileo)
Monday gets talked about a great deal. Not much of the talk is about how great it is. Since it is 1/7 of our time, let’s consider it from other perspectives.
One Wednesday 22 years ago, I was in Reagan National Airport, waiting to catch a plane. I was 56 years old at the time. Suddenly, this occurred to me: 56 divided by 7 equals 8; my 56 years equaled 8 years Saturday, Sunday, Monday…. One of my favorite conversation starters since then has been:
“How old are you?”
“I’m 35.”
“So you’ve lived 5 years of Mondays?!”
Of course, most of the time their age isn’t divisible by 7 and I round up or down. Almost all of the time the conversation goes along the lines of well, not nearly a seventh of my life has been bad, so Monday must get more negative press than it deserves.
The English name from the Latin dies lunae, day of the moon. Or MoonDay, thankfully shortened to Monday. How many times do you look at and feel awe at the beauty of the moon, in any of its phases?
The Eastern Orthodox Church commemorates saints on Mondays. Considered the day of the angels as well. And, remember, “Monday’s child is fair of face.” Consider the tradition (at least in NYC) of doing the laundry on the work week’s first day.
We pour grief on Monday in lots of ways. “Rainy days and Mondays always get me down.” How about: “Monday, Monday. Can’t trust that day.” Ahh, but there’s the lead line in Carole King’s Beautiful: “You’ve got to get up every morning, with a smile on your face, and show the world all the love in your heart.” She says “every morning”, no exceptions.
Enter “Monday psychology” in Google and the lists of Monday malaise fill the monitor screen. Some relief that one or two sites offer some antidotes(1) to Monday blues(2).
Monday can be …. is …. what we want it to be.
A Prayer for Monday Starts
Power and Presences of All We Do,
you give us our ability to see and know and create
everything we do with your blessings.
We are able to see the clouds and know there’s sun
on the other side.
We are able to wake up every day and see our work
as challenge and cheer waiting for our enjoyment.
We are able to know we are One with You
and know Monday is our human invention
that has only the meanings we give it.
Thank you, Spirit, for allowing us to free ourselves.
And so it is. And so we let it be. Amen
Love and blessings,
19 June 2017
In: Happiness, Inner Peace, Prayer, Time, Work · Tagged with: Peace, Prayer, Time, Work
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