{22} Faith is a rest

Written By: AnneBH - Sep• 19•11

I’ve always had a fear of Monday mornings ever since I was a small child. My apprehension would start from the night before and consume me like a dark mist until the next morning when I had to get up and get ready for school. I have sat on my own analysts couch and tried to figure out this deep rooted fear of Mondays and have come up with explanations like it’s because I hadn’t done my homework and was worried about the amount of trouble I would get into  to I had to have my hair plaited on Sunday evenings and that was torture pure and simple. Any Ghanaian woman will know what I am on about; you sat on the floor, your body bound by the legs of your torturer whilst she pulled and parted and combed my thick matt of wiry African hair. Then she would use the plaiting thread to plait my hair into several tentacles tied so tight my skin stretched around my eyes leaving me feeling and looking like some oriental African hybrid medusa. If I ever dared to ask my torturer to ease the tension a little bit, she would use the end tooth of the comb to release my hair strand by eye-wateringly painful strand.  Sleep on Sunday nights was all but impossible as I tossed and turned trying to find the portion of my scalp that wasn’t so tender.

Anyway, I digress ever so slightly even though I did wake with the same feeling of fear and trepidation this morning. What on earth is it that makes me fear Mondays so? When you live in fear, there is something about Mondays that seems to expose you to your predators in the same way that there is something about weekends that provides a safe haven. No phone calls from your creditors and a whole two days (with an additional blessing if it is a bank holiday weekend) for you to catch up, hide, or rest.

However, we are not supposed to live our lives like fugitives; running away from our fears which follow us like a long shadow in the evening light. Those of us who have faith, know that we have hope and of ourselves we can do nothing but by God’s grace we have a refuge.

So as I sit before my computer on a Monday morning, with 22 days to go, my prayer is to emerge from my metamorphic process completely free of the burden of my Monday blues. I will love each day Monday as if it were a Saturday or Sunday.

Today, my prayed for intuition is to complete the printing jobs I have outstanding. They will not all be completed today but a journey of a thousand miles begins with one baby step, no?

Oh, by the way, the picture today is of my desk. So tidy you could eat your lunch off it.

Have a blessed day.

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8 Comments

  1. Lorraine Sweeney says:

    About time the desk was cleared!!! I think as much as we are scared of Mondays, I am always comforted that Mondays soon becomes Tuesdays…

  2. Anne says:

    Ahem, I’d say Lorraine, seeing as half the crap on there was yours 🙂 lol. Time to tidy yours eh?

  3. Amy says:

    You shall indeed learn to love Mondays once more, Anne! I can see it! And I love your desk!!!

  4. Anne says:

    Thanks so much Amy, had nearly forgotten what the image on the desk looked like. Looking forward to leaping out of bed with great excitement next Monday.

    • redallover says:

      Clear desk, clear mind? Or clear mind, clear desk?
      Today is the day that the Lord has made, we shall rejoice and be glad in it. Mondays mean you’ve survived the weekend without killing your kids and being taken to prison for it.
      Mondays mean you’ve lived to fight another day.
      Mondays mean you’ve another weekend to look forward to.
      Mondays mean the beginning of another week of blessings.

      • Anne says:

        The kids have been fantastic this weekend so my prayers have clearly been answered, Nick actually played a prank on me and got me giggling and Elliot volunteered a bit of information about his footballing future!. I like the beginning of another week of blessing best. I am expecting it! Have a blessed week. Let’s skype soon.

  5. Mpondondo says:

    Have just started reading your webpage. Loving it…bring on number 19!!

    • Anne says:

      Hi Dave, thanks so much for reading my blog. I hope you enjoy them. I have been reading your adventures in Brazil as well. It’s amazing.

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