It is Monday. It is THE Monday after Thanksgiving Break.
It is Monday. It is THE Monday after a 9 day vacation.
It is Monday. It is raining and the wind is blowing. In the words of Forrest Gump, "Little bitty stingin' rain... and big ol' fat rain. Rain that flew in sideways. And sometimes rain even seemed to come straight up from underneath. Shoot, it even rained at night..."
It is Monday. And my family is long gone.
It is Monday. And Christmas Break is 3 weeks away.
It is Monday and all of life is needing to be done. (Again!)
So I leave you and me with a quote and remind us both that work came before the Fall:
“Good human work honors God's work. Good work uses no thing without respect, both for what it is in itself and for its origin. It uses neither tool nor material that it does not respect and that it does not love. It honors nature as a great mystery and power, as an indispensable teacher, and as the inescapable judge of all work of human hands. It does not dissociate life and work, or pleasure and work, or love and work, or usefulness and beauty. To work without pleasure or affection, to make a product that is not both useful and beautiful, is to dishonor God, nature, the thing that is made, and whomever it is made for. This is blasphemy: to make shoddy work of the work of God. But such blasphemy is not possible when the entire Creation is understood as holy and when the works of God are understood as embodying and thus revealing His spirit. (pg. 312, Christianity and the Survival of Creation)”
― Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry
Happy Monday,
David
You voiced what I was feeling as usual. I was sad traveling down I-75. I had looked forward to us all being together for so long, it was incredible and right, and then gone. Monday was hard.
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