Sometimes, Tuesdays are hard. You survived Monday with all its post-weekend pile-up, and you feel like you should get some kind of award for simply getting everyone back home, fed, homeworked, bathed, and to bed. But no one applauds.

Instead, you wake up on Tuesday and realize you have to do it all over again. What’s more, Monday probably has some left-overs waiting on your desk. Or in your laundry room. Or both.

And, quite possibly, you are facing something much larger than bills or quarterly reviews. Something more devastating than your daughter’s unfinished math problems. Maybe you are facing a Tuesday with problems so big you can’t imagine any scenario that includes a happy ending.

For whatever Tuesday is bringing you today, I offer this age-old proverb: This too shall pass.

Lame? I know. It is. What’s more, it isn’t even scripture. I always think that one is in the Bible, but it isn’t actually. Not in those words. The concept, though, is not only in the Bible, it is better. Try this actual solid, gold promise from God through the words of His man, Paul:

2 Corinthians 4: 17-18 NLT “For our present troubles are small and won’t last very long.  Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever.  So we don’t look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen.  For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever.”

Definitely not lame. I can’t imagine something that vastly outweighs my troubles and will last forever. But, I believe.