I like Mondays

Especially now that I can start them at home with coffee and cinnamon buns and music and a cute baby as company.  When they began at 8 am under fluorescent lights that was no good.  That was mega, horrible, awful depressing.  But NOW it means making lists and getting things done and taking Lulu to get shots (and weighed!) and cleaning!  My bedroom ceiling fan looks completely different this afternoon. Gulp.  I made my own dusting solution and put it in a spray bottle:

½ tsp. light olive oil   

¼ cup white vinegar 

a few drops of lavender essential oil  

water

I wish I could post a picture of the SMELL because it's awesome.  Fresh, clean, beautiful.  My love affair with vinegar is really possibly getting out of hand.

And update on the juice fast: Day 3 and Samm has lost 4 lbs, looks...fresher... and is starting to feel better.  First two days without coffee or the joy of eating were pretty rough.  I guess that's when your body releases a lot of toxins.  I thought he smelled rather strange, so, must be true.  Anyways, proud of him and... meanwhile, I need to go reheat my coffee... ehem.

This morning while I enjoyed my Monday not being at a job I read about N.T. Wright's series called Christian Origins and the Question of God. I now really want to read them. I've read some of his shorter works, but I need to bite off something more solid these days...  He essentially is covering all the basics (6 volumes, first three are out:  Jesus, God's People, and the Resurrection) in a way that acknowledges the current discussions in academia but kind of takes aim and fires at those who would say Christianity has been disproved.  He is one those people who makes me think it might be intellectually plausible to be a Christian after all.  He doesn't ignore philosophy and history and modern scholarship, writing it all off... yet he doesn't bow to it either.  He engages it.  

	The New Testament and the People of God Volume 1  (Christian Origins and the Question of God) by N. T. Wright (Paperback) 4.7 out of 5 stars   (34)	Added July 18, 2011 Add comments, quantity & priority
	Jesus and the Victory of God  (Christian Origins and the Question of God, Volume 2) by N. T. Wright (Paperback) 4.7 out of 5 stars   (41)	Added July 18, 2011 Add comments, quantity & priority
	The Resurrection of the Son of God  (Christian Origins and the Question of God, Vol. 3) by N. T. Wright (Paperback) 4.7 out of 5 stars   (50)	Added July 18, 2011 Add comments, quantity & priority

 He finds (and presents) very compelling reasons to believe the Christian story is true.  And at the end, he acknowledges that it's a story, one of many, to explain the mysteries of life.  Something about this attitude, his confidence in God and His revelation but his humility also is really, really appealing to me.

Anyways, Mondays are like Do-Over buttons.  A fresh start is nice.  New lists.  New goals.  I like them.