HOLY WEEK

Well, it's Holy Monday. And my question for you is, "how is it treating you?" Does it feel like a more Holy Monday than any other? Hopefully, it does. Hopefully you've so enjoyed Lent as a time of reflection, meditation, fasting, and prayer, that as we come into Holy Week, your spirit is at peace and you can't help but feel a little different knowing that Easter is fast approaching.

But, if you're anything like me, then you know all too well how even Holy Week can tend to feel just like any other week. Holy Monday is, after all, Monday. And just like most Monday's, many of us are back to the office, or the salesfloor, or the warehouse, or factory, or to being the only one home with the kids again. Yes, back to the grind of life, even on "Holy Monday."

But just because this Monday is just like any other Monday does not mean that it isn't holy. In fact it means just the opposite. This Monday is holy just like every other Monday! Because of what we celebrate later this week, everything we do, every day that we live has been reclaimed by a holy God and it is now holy in His sight. It may not always feel or look that way, but it is. This coming Sunday, we will proclaim that Jesus has been raised from the dead. Death and the Devil have been overcome. We have been reclaimed as children of God. Certainly everyday is now Holy! Not even the Monday doldrums can take that away.

So yeah, sometimes Monday's stink. And even "Holy Monday" is still Monday. But let us not forget the loving God that gives us each and every one of these holy days of life as a gift and who restores us to himself in His Son, Jesus Christ.

Amen, and happy Monday!