MONDAY'S CHILD

             I eat breakfast with a group of old(er) ministers every Thursday morning at a local Cracker Barrel. As most of you know, all the Cracker Barrel restaurants have antiques or replicas of antiques on the walls. One morning I noticed on the wall a calendar from the year 1935 and it was open to the months of March, April and May. Having been born in May of 1935 I looked for the 20^th (my birth date) and saw that it fell on a Monday.

            “Monday’s Child” is a song or rhyme that dates back more than 200 years. It starts “Monday’s child is fair of face.” Now that’s nice. But it is up to others to decide if this Monday child is fair of face. I’d rather be like Tuesday’s Child who is “full of grace.” One definition of “grace” in the dictionary is “unmerited divine assistance given humans for their regeneration and/or sanctification.” Such grace is reflected in character and lifestyle.

What is inside a person is more important than what is on the outside. In our society, which makes much to do over looks, we need to remember, “the Lord does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”(1 Samuel 16:7)

             If you are not familiar with the rhyme it is;

“Monday’s child is fair of face,

 Tuesday’s child is full of grace,

 Wednesday’s child is full of woe,

 Thursday’s child has far to go,

 Friday’s child is loving and giving,

 Saturday’s child works hard for a living,

 But the child who is born on the Sabbath Day

 Is bonny and blithe and good and gay.”

Of course, this ancient rhyme has nothing to do with reality. 

Grace and peace.