Woo Hoo it’s Monday!

How do you start your Monday? Do you wake up with a smile on your face, just raring to get up, get dressed and get to work? Do you wake up telling God thank you for watching over you during the night and asking Him to guide you through your week? Or do you wake up grumbling and complaining?

I confess that I have done both. Some Mondays I wake up excited to be able to start the day. Other times I grumble and complain about aches and pains and not feeling rested.

I mean, really, what do I have to complain about? I love my job. I love the people I work with. It’s rewarding. I work in a nice building with heat in the winter and air conditioning in the summer.

I have it better than probably 80 percent of the working world. So why do I grumble?

The little girl I sponsor through Compassion lives in Guatemala. Her mother sells tamales for a living. They live in a mountain village and the mother walks from her house to a larger city (several miles away) so that she can sell more tamales. I don’t know exactly what her day is like but I bet it’s a whole lot harder than what I do for a living.

One of my New Year’s Resolutions this year is to say “Thank you” more often, to have a continuous attitude of gratitude. To smile more and grumble less. I may not wake up in the morning saying “Woo Hoo it’s Monday” but then again, I just might.

Philippians 2:14-30 –

14 Do all things without grumbling ^R92 or disputing; 15 so that you will prove ^F30 yourselves to be blameless ^R93 and innocent, children ^R94 of God above reproach in the midst of a crooked ^R95 and perverse generation, among whom you appear ^{F31 R96} as lights ^F32 in the world, 16 holding fast ^F33 the word of life, so that in the ^R97 day of Christ I will have reason to glory because I did not run ^R98 in vain nor toil ^R99 in vain.