As Sunday approached, anxiety set in about CHURCH week after week like a runaway train I couldn’t stop.

The Lord spoke something very clearly to me this weekend and really kicked my booty. He said to me, “Adrienne, Sunday is not a problem to be solved.” You see, I’m a problem-solver TO THE CORE. And I’ve learned about us kind that the best reward for a problem-solver is, you guessed it, another problem! How NEGATIVE is that?! Yeppers, and hence the vicious cycle loops around and around and around if we are not intentional about this. When I tell you that yesterday was THE BEST SUNDAY for me in years, guess what? Nothing was majorly different about it than any other Sunday….except MY ATTITUDE. My decision to see the day at church to CELEBRATE everyone who I get to do life with week in and week out, a day to enjoy REAL LIFE CHANGE in people’s lives all around us.

On any given Sunday, we have people who have been homeless, addicted to drugs, in prostitution, people whose marriages are on the brink of divorce or beautiful yet broken hearted people who have just lost everything and everyone due to mistakes they’ve made or mistakes of others leaving them no choice but to start over, and just regular people whose lives are “good & normal” which just means we don’t know what’s all brewing under the surface, right?!….the list of all our stories go on and on and on of those who need not to be seen as a problem to be solved but a friend to be loved and enjoyed!

Here’s the deal, for me: church is not this place to go to for WARM & FUZZIES with your family all snug, together in a car looking for rainbows and unicorns at least for one hour this week away from all the hustle and bustle. Church for me IS MY JOB & it IS THE HUSTLE & BUSTLE. But what God was trying to remind me this weekend is that IT IS ACTUALLY A CELEBRATION OF WHAT GOD IS WORKING IN THE HEARTS AND LIVES OF MANY INCLUDING MINE!

So the way I was approaching SUNDAYS (my biggest work day of the week) is most likely the way most approach MONDAYS. So if you are getting worked up into a frenzy, change your perspective about Monday, dip it in glitter & sparkle all day! #happymondayblog