Of Monday Mornings

I resonate with what Derek says about Mondays, and suppose that many preachers do.  I find a full day of preaching and ancillary ministry to be very draining.  This summer a homiletics professor cited research indicating that preaching a one-hour sermon is the physical equivalent of four hours of hard manual labor.  There is a kind of emptiness that comes on Mondays, but I have come to find a kind of satisfaction in the feeling, as an opportunity for God to show his grace.  For me a new week of sermon preparation begins on Mondays, and it is good to begin from a place of needy dependency.