Reliable

Driving on a Friday morning to a client’s house on a long, winding and rocky road, I can hear the gravel crackling underneath the chassis of my sedan. Yes, my low-sitting car has been dependable and reliable these past 7 years. It has wheeled me to work. It had waited on me by the curbside to pick up my small kids from school. She stayed in hospital lot for cold and sleepless nights. All it needs is a full tank and oil change and it will keep on going.

Then the radio started playing the familiar beat of the “Eye of the Tiger” by Survivor. And I had a suspicion this is a breakthrough day! It has two, ten- beat rhythm, ready to ramble kind of sting. Then it explodes in a raspy, ready -to- fight voice.

Risin’ up, back on the street

Did my time, took my chances

Went the distance, now I’m back on my feet

Just a man and his will to survive

And there’s Rocky Balboa, giving the upper cut to his opponent. Here I am just about to fight my way through the end of the week. Here’s my car, taking me where the fight closes in.

Is it Friday yet? How many times do we pose this TGIF question? I think we ask it daily, day in and day out, from Monday to Friday. When Friday comes, we act surprised as if this day will never come. Ahh Friday, what do we anticipate on a Friday? It’s the last day of the work week where we can finally unwind. You and I have been put in the ringer the past four days. We are just trying to hold ourselves up to take care of business. Zoom meeting with the bosses. Zoom meeting with the teachers. How I wish we did more Zumba with the stay home shenanigans. That will do us more good to boost our happy cells.

I sometimes think that it’s the end of the world but I refuse. It’s not my business nor yours to know when that will happen. So let’s skip it and keep on going.

Friday does come but we all have to go through the rough edges and the cogwheel roll of the other days. We have seen better days but do they take the best of us with them? When worse days happen, do they make us worse to handle our juggling roles as wives, mothers, friend, student, co-workers? Please select from above which one applies to you. But you and I have a role and position that never ever changes even if we hold different hats on our head.

You are endowed with power, love and a sound mind. We are not daughters who hold back and hide in the corner. Your body may be beat down by an invisible baseball bat. Your mind feels light after a roller coaster ride ( of events and issues of life). But you are capable of holding yourself together. You are at your best in your worst days. And from Monday until Friday, you can make things happen.

God has filled your inside with essential pieces of power, love and sound mind. And just like my car taking me from one place to another. You are reliable more than ever, pandemic or not.

2 Timothy 1:7 KJV

For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.