Making Monday Marvelous

Recently I was challenged to view Mondays in a different way. I had always tried to make them great- however I think I was struggling with the same feeling as everyone else I know on a Sunday night. Apparently more people commit suicide on a Monday than any other day, Monday is the day the majority of the population look forward to least. What is wrong with this day, isn't it just like any other? Do the Saturdays and Sundays of our lives have to be the only time we relax, let our hair down and enjoy our lives? Monday is a great day- it can be the making or breaking of your week, but it all is determined by our attitudes toward it.

MyMakingMondayMarvelous:

I decided that I would do a particular thing that I would most enjoy and would only allow myself to do on this day. My choice, to have a pampering time and listen to Opera. I also decided to write my boyfriend a love letter on Mondays. It is the time I pray for friends and family most and I try to take time to myself to be inspired and do some artistic adventures.

Why do Monday's have to be monotonous? Make them marvelous!

Desk.

Do you ever think about a word and how it came to life? Say it aloud. Desk. Isn't that a funny word?

So the other day I got to clearing out my Desk and sorting through some papers etc. I find that a desk can be an amazing space, a place where I communicate to myself that learning is fun, that life is to be enjoyed and that work is not a bad thing.

I make my desk a little site for inspiration. It includes my favorite books of the moment, theology books, commentaries and at the moment a book I just adore, 'Where will you be in five years?' (if you don't have it- get it) hand picked drift wood from my two favorite beaches in Australia: Palm and Balmoral, Lilies that my boyfriend gave to me, some pictures that I drew, snippets from decor magazines that I love and recycled jam jars made into pen holders with brown paper labels. I also made a hanging contraption that holds my statement/prayer for the second half of the year.

It reads: 'Turn my stresses into prayers, my frustrations into praises, my fears into faith and my sadness into dancing.'

My desk also holds brochures of things that I want to do, things I need to make time for and my weirdo collection of postcards from Art galleries all around the World. The next few weeks will be the last that I use my desk, I will always have stuff on it- keep it as a home for my laptop, but I wont be sitting at it for the same amount of hours that I have for the past four years, my next 'desk' will be an art studio, a garage, a living room, an easel. Im so captivated by the idea of really getting to do what I have wanted to do my whole life. Theology has been an amazing journey, it has made me a better person, given me vision, allowed me to see God clearly and answered my questions when nobody else could answer me. I love how this desk has changed me, how the endless hours, nights and early mornings of reading on it, sitting by it and leaning on it have made me a better person. I love how it has formed from a plain white Ikea contraption into a place of Hope, Inspiration and Desire. I love my desk, that the possibilities of learning are endless. What's on your desk?