List Week- Monday

This week will be a week of list.

I need to get my mind straight and some times that means break out from the norm and trying something new for just a little bit in hopes of finding whatever it was that was missing from the previous arrangement of days and activities.

So here is a list for Monday:

1 thing about Mondays for every other day of the work week (AKA 4 things about Mondays):

1. Mondays should be filled with an energy that propels you from the beginning of the laborious project that is a full workweek and into the very ends of the final hours of Friday. In my case Mondays are the day that follows Sunday, filled with confusion as though I’m wading in the waters of a tsunami trying to hold onto something that can stay a float long enough to get me to the next Sunday.

2. Garfield is not justified in his expressions of hatred. He’s a cat. Cats have no justification for any hate. They are little nap monsters that pay for food and cleaning services with purrs.

3. I wonder what some of the people whose work ethic I admire are doing with their Mondays, or with the Mondays they had before they were overwhelmed with work. I wonder what Rob Bell does with his Mondays, or what Donald Glover, or Will Smith? A strange group, I know, but still…

4. On a good day 20 people read my blog. On a bad day 0 people do. I wonder who reads my blog on Mondays? If they did they’d realize that this was actually posted on Tuesday.

And now a list of things I feel like need to complete, numbered to the number of completion (AKA 7 things I need to do):

1. I need to take whatever leaps of faith I’m not taking and I need to take them with every ounce of my soul.

2. I need to stop being scared that what happened to me in my senior year of college will happen again and I will find myself burnt out because this life I’m living now doesn’t care for people the way that my life then did.

3. I need to give this wedding to God, and not take even a scrap of it for myself or I will find that this foundation for a marriage is laden with cracks caused by my selfishness.

4. I need to write poetry again.

5.  I need to make PACC Youth Ministries into the ministry that I always dreamed it could be. One that inspires people to find the creator that moves through everything and to express it by allowing themselves to create.

6. I need to change the world for good rather than stop myself from doing evil.

7. I can only do 1-7 by giving my heart wholly to Christ and watching his love unfold in my life and in others. I need to give my heart wholly to Christ.

It’s a new week of a new year and it’s time to kick some expletive deleted!