Case of the Mondays

So yesterday, I just had a really crappy day. I got a horrible night's sleep, waking up a lot in the middle of the night, my mattress pad bunching up underneath me, waking up half an hour before my alarm is set to go off, just stuff like that and that's how I started my Monday.

Granted I had a pretty exhausting weekend, having fun with friends in Olive Branch, but I guess it just hit me hard Sunday and Monday. So I was already in a bad mood Monday morning, p.o.'d for some reason, and the weather wasn't helping out either, very dreary and chilly. So I was all stuffed up and dry, not cool.

I actually ended up sitting on my bed watching tv after my 2 o'clock class and I look over and see my middle/high school Bible sitting on my bedstand. So I open it up and just start looking through it.

My high school mission trip brochures were stuffed away in the case's inside pocket, pamphlets from youth group day and weekend trips that I went on when I was super active with my church's youth group, devotional entries, personal prayer requests I wrote to myself, a picture from my old youth minister's wedding that had faded hard core and other little things like that that were a huge part of my life back when I was a teenager.

It was really...poignant, I guess is a good word, because it made me think back to the times when I was very devout and positive about everything, pre-college when I started doubting my faith and my, well, life basically. I needed that snap back to reality yesterday in the worst way. Little things like rediscovering a part of your life when you were younger and innocent and untainted by the materialistic world we live in, they really help the soul and mend little wears and tears on the heart from over the years.

So if yall have a little devotional booklet sitting around or an old Bible that you rarely even glance at, pipck it up today or when you have time and look through it. Look at all the little notes you wrote in it and the passages you highlighted. It'll be a little meditation in the hectic days we live out.

xxoo