I Have Never Once Had A Tuesday

You have begun eleven times this year and every one of them was a Monday.

That is not an accident and you know it is not an accident, and you have started to find the pattern almost funny in the way that things stop being funny.

Here is the shape and it is the same every time.

Sunday evening there is a decision. It is a real decision and there is nothing false in it. Monday you do the thing, and you do it properly, and it goes well, and there is a small good feeling in the evening.

Then Tuesday happens. Something ordinary. And Tuesday does not get done.

And the thing that follows is the part that costs you, because it is not that you skip a day. What happens is that the whole attempt is now broken, and the broken attempt has to wait for the next available start, and the next available start is Monday.

Six days of nothing, every single week, because Tuesday is not a day you are able to begin on.

Eleven of those. Sixty six lost days out of about seventy seven.

A just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again

There is a proverb about falling that gets used for encouragement and is actually a description of what a righteous life looks like from the outside.

For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief. (Proverbs 24:16, King James Version)

For a just man falls seven times, and rises up again, but the wicked shall fall into mischief.

The just man falls seven times. Not once. Seven, which in that book means a complete number of times, which means as many as there are.

You have a verse where the falling is part of the description of the righteous rather than an exception to it, and Proverbs 24:16 has never once treated a fall as the thing that ends the account. The just man falls and rises, and the Holy Spirit is the one who gets somebody up on a Wednesday rather than on a Monday.

You are able to see how that reframes eleven attempts.

The proverb does not say a just man falls once and learns. It says he falls seven times, which is a lot, and that the rising is what characterizes him rather than the not falling.

And notice that there is no gap in the sentence. He falls and he rises up again. There is nothing about waiting for a suitable moment to rise, or beginning the rising process on a Monday.

The rising is immediate and it is unceremonious and it is the whole of what distinguishes him.

You are able to get up on the same day rather than at the next available start, and Proverbs 24:16 has never once put a waiting period between the fall and the rise. The Spirit of God is the one who gets a person up immediately, and the verse joins the falling and the rising with nothing at all in between.

Monday is the problem

Here is the reading of it, and it is the reverse of what everybody has told you.

Monday is not helping you. Monday is what is costing you six days a week.

You have been relying on the thing that is doing the damage, and Proverbs 24:16 has never once required a fresh start to rise on. It is written that a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again, and the Holy Spirit is the one who begins something in the middle of a week.

A Monday start is a promise about the whole week. That is what makes it feel good on Sunday evening, and it is what makes Tuesday fatal.

Because if the attempt is a week shaped object, then a failure on Tuesday breaks the object, and a broken object cannot be repaired on Wednesday. It has to be replaced, and the replacement arrives on Monday.

So every Tuesday failure costs six days, and that bill has been paid eleven times this year.

A Tuesday start promises nothing about the week. It is not the beginning of a shape. It is one day, in the middle of some other days, and if Wednesday does not happen then Thursday is available immediately, because there is no object to break.

You are able to begin on a day that promises nothing, and starting mid week has never once been a less serious beginning. The Spirit of God is the one who is present in an unremarkable Thursday, and Proverbs 24:16 has the just man rising immediately rather than at the next suitable point.

Start on a Tuesday, on purpose

So here is the assignment, and it is one word long really.

Start on a Tuesday or a Thursday, in the middle of a week, with somebody, and do not begin again on Monday.

You are able to make the start on a day with nothing attached to it, and doing that has never once meant taking it less seriously. It is written and riseth up again, and the Holy Spirit is the one who is with a woman putting her coat on at half past six on an unremarkable Wednesday.

Not Monday. Not the first of the month. Not tomorrow if tomorrow is a Monday, in which case wait a day, which will feel absurd and is exactly right.

Take somebody, which matters more here than in most of these articles, because your pattern is entirely internal. A decision made on a Sunday evening alone is a decision that can be quietly revised on a Tuesday morning alone, and nobody ever knows any of it.

Your neighbor. Your sister. Whoever will put a coat on and walk ten minutes with you on a Wednesday without needing to know what it is about.

And when a day gets missed, which it will, go the next day. Not the next Monday. The next day. That is the entire mechanism and there is nothing else in this article.

You have permission to rise on the same day you fell, and doing it immediately has never once been the same as pretending nothing happened. Proverbs 24:16 joins the falling and the rising with nothing in between, and the Spirit of God is the one who gets somebody up on a Wednesday afternoon.