Monday, Monday

Monday, Monday, so good to me
Monday mornin´, it was all I hoped it would be
Every other day, every other day
Every other day of the week is fine, yeah
But whenever Monday comes, but whenever Monday comes
A-you can find me cryin´ all of the time

Every other day, every other day
Every other day of the week is fine, yeah
But whenever Monday comes, but whenever Monday comes
A-you can find me cryin´ all of the time

Monday, Monday, can´t trust that day
Monday, Monday, it just turns out that way
Oh Monday, Monday, won´t go away
Monday, Monday, it´s here to stay
Oh Monday, Monday
Oh Monday, Monday (lyrics from the Mama and Papa’s song, “Monday, Monday.”

Show me someone who loves Monday and I’ll show you someone who either has the day off or had a low-keyed weekend where they spent too much time couch surfing.  No one likes Monday, do they?

I wondered what I would do on my sabbatical on Mondays.  There are no staff meetings, no reflections on how Sunday worship went, and no meetings (remember what I think of meetings?).  So what are they like?

I am getting in the habit of going to the gym before Julie wakes up in the morning.  So there’s that. But there’s more.  If you are mindful.  Mindful?  According to mindful.org Mindfulness “suggests that the mind is fully attending to what’s happening, to what you’re doing, to the space you’re moving through. That might seem trivial, except for the annoying fact that we so often veer from the matter at hand. Our mind takes flight, we lose touch with our body, and pretty soon we’re engrossed in obsessive thoughts about something that just happened or fretting about the future. And that makes us anxious.”

That’s the problem with Mondays!  We are not mindful and all sort of things began to fill our mind.  Before we know it, all the problems of the day and week invade our souls like a crazed mob of germanic barbarians seeking nothing more than havoc and disorder.  Who needs that on any day, especially Mondays?  So how do we get over the hurdle of dreading Mondays and limping through the day?   Being mindful isn’t hard, one just has to work at it.  As mindful.org says:

Mindfulness is the basic human ability to be fully present, aware of where we are and what we’re doing, and not overly reactive or overwhelmed by what’s going on around us.

So here’s to a mindful Monday for us all.