Today's Devotional
Garfield the cat, of comics fame, hates Mondays; evidently Mondays hate him, too. The ’60s rock group The Mamas and the Papas sang about Mondays, “Monday, Monday, can’t trust that day.” For many people, Mondays feel like the beginning of Psalm 69.
I will confess that I like Mondays. I like Mondays precisely because they follow Sundays. Sunday worship and Sunday learning and teaching, and – yes – even Sunday meetings are so often energized with the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit moves in the groups that meet on Sundays, varying versions of the Body of Christ.
Mondays are when I get to put all those ideas, all that energy, all that guidance into action. The work of ministry that was hailed in worship, learned in class or planned in a meeting is now in motion. Monday’s a time to reach out, and time to go forth, a time to be the Church in the world.
If the psalmist was “having a Monday” [in the bad sense] at the beginning of Psalm 69, maybe by the end of the psalm, the Spirit is leading him into new possibilities: “I will praise the name of God with a song … you who seek God, let your hearts revive … Let heaven and earth praise God, the seas and everything that moves in them.” (Psalm 69:30, 32, 34)
— Rev. Kathryn Strempke, First UMC Paris, NTC
kathryns@firstmethodistparis.org
