Mondays can still bring rejoicing

I am a girl that truly does like to clean her house! I know, strange right? My Mom who thinks my life is SOOOO busy is always offering to get me a housekeeper to come in at least one time. I always tell her "no"...I know, again, crazy right? It is very important to me to keep a tidy house, it isn't always tidy that is for sure, but it is always something I strive to do. My big problem, as much as I really do enjoy cleaning is the circumstances around my cleaning have to be just right or I end up not enjoying it...so needless to say, my circumstances are rarely right so I end up not enjoying housekeeping...does that make sense at all...it makes perfect sense to me! Those circumstances usually involve utter solitude, pure focus and uninterrupted scrubbing. Rare!

Over the last 3 days (since Friday) I have been telling the family "I can't wait for Monday! I am going to clean clean clean!" On Saturday I said "I can't wait for you all to leave for school so I can completely scrub this house" On Sunday "Honey, I am so glad you are preaching out of town so I can have this house to myself!" I was seriously counting down the days! Weird I know...stay with me!

As I was sitting in choir practice on Sunday afternoon I felt some pressure in my head, I took some Tylenol but felt no relief :( As the evening progressed I realized this headache was not budging until I just go to bed...but "I can't wait for tomorrow to get this house done!" I sang! Just as I said this I turned to my son Jeffrey and said "watch something will happen and I will totally lose my motivation" Oh how did I know?!!! Around 3am I woke up to the throbbing of my head and eyeballs wide open! I got up and took a swig of Nyquil . Sleep was on the way! Unfortunately, there was not enough hours to wear off the precious sleep aid...up I was making lunches and feeling groggy...with the lingering headache. My motivation was gone!

Now for the fun part...this is not my usual reaction to lack of sleep, headaches, a house that is still cluttered but I pulled Psalm 118:24 from my toes and said "It's Monday and I can still rejoice in this day the Lord hath made". I actually looked behind me as if to say "who said that"? I am rejoicing with a thankful heart that I have a day to rejoice...I might be tired, but I have so much to be thankful for! The cobwebs may sit. I still pray as I sit here that He will rejuvenate my motivation, but if it doesn't return...I will REJOICE!