Ordinary Monday

  Somewhere in the world today, Monday isn’t going to be an ordinary day.

 It may be a day full of grace as Mother Mary’s Annunciation Day.  It may be a day of pain and suffering as a parent loses their only child. Horrific weather could bring a cyclone or flood, and somewhere it will be yet another day of a war that has gone on too long with no end in sight.

 It could be the day you get a well-deserved, much needed raise; or maybe your child will be accepted to their first-choice college; it might be your long-awaited retirement day or the birth of your first baby.

 It will likely be a Monday of nothing special, but everything filled with God’s love.  Today will begin like any other Monday, with no promise of a serious threat or special surprise. But, it could be the most important day of your life. A day you will remember forever.  

 It is amazing that time is lived one moment at a time, no amount of planning or plotting can live it before its time. No amount of sorrow or regret can take it back once lived. Life is for living and time is a precious gift. We get to step into each day with grace and courage – no matter what yesterday was or tomorrow will be, today is.   For most of us, God-willing, it will be an ordinary Monday. 

 O Beloved of my soul, eternal source of my existence, for the gift of this day, I thank you.  Send your angels to help me bring the blessing of who I am fully to this day in service to You. No matter what happens, the good and the not so good, I lift all to your gentle care and miraculous Love. This day I celebrate with all who will find in You their heart’s deepest joy.