The Mercy That Meets You on Monday

There's something honest about Monday morning. The stack of emails, the alarm that came too soon, the coffee that's already going cold. If Sunday is where grace gets sung, Monday is where it gets tested.

But the promise of Lamentations 3 isn't that mercy waits for us at church. It's that His mercies are new every morning — including the mornings that don't feel merciful. Including the ones where the week ahead looks longer than the one behind you.

You don't have to earn Monday's grace. It's already there, meeting you at the door. Faith isn't a Sunday event. It's Monday's ordinary grace, showing up quiet, showing up on time.