It is funny how we have these emotional  highs and lows in our life where we feel happy, positive, up, energized on one day and then the next we are blue, lazy, unmotivated, cranky. For almos 40 years I am in various stages of depression on Mondays. In my head I quit my job almost every Monday. Some Monday’s I don’t get out of bed until 10 am because I don’t want to do anything or talk to anybody. It is sort of an emotional fatigue from the weekend of preaching, people, services, and busy. One of my life motto’s that I preached to my kids and most anybody else who would listen is “you don’t have to act the way you feel”. I made that a firm personal commitment so that I wouldn’t do things and say things and make decisions on Monday that would hurt others, mess up my relationships with people I love. It is a fact that I can act responsibly and lovingly even when I don’t feel like it because I make a firm commitment and decision to do so because it is right. I am thankful that tomorrow is Tuesday and Tuesday’s are almost always good days when it is easy to smile and be nice to everybody.