"I'm so excited," she rushed up to her friend and said, "I love my six year-old van with the dirt outside and inside an inch thick! I love my home, with the overflowing laundry room, lack of sprinkler system and messy kitchen. And although my kids are driving me crazy at home this summer, they are just so wonderful and cute when they argue! And did you see my flip flops, they are three years old and I'm still wearing them! I'm overdo to have my hair highlighted, but you know the grey looks kinda blonde! Isn't it all so great, my life is well...perfect!"
The last series in our lessons on character was on contentment.
It makes me think how much I really take every little thing we have for granted. I wonder how things would change if we stopped complaining to one another and internally to ourselves and reversed the thoughts we have when we feel life isn't adding up for us.
Instead of complaining of the lack of something, what if we are grateful for having so much very more than we really need and may even deserve.
So, if it was me as the woman talking to her friend, I can be grateful for our van that has more memories than dust molecolules will ever acumulate. And just today, I got it washed for free because I had the right combination of birthday month and sticker color!
The laundry room is overflowing, because I've been a bit busy with activities with my family which I would never trade and we have more than enough clothes!
No sprinkler system, I need to pray more for rain, or turn on the hose and let the kids have some water fights.
Our kitchen is messy indeed, we feast like kings compared to 99 percent of the world's population. Our kids are unbelievable wonderful and their small tiffs now and then mean they have a normal sibling relationship. I dearly love having them home for the summer!
I have an awesome pair of flip flops! I got them on sale, they were a bit pricey for flip flops, but at the end of the season sale, they were affordable and apparently well worth it! I've worn them and worn them and they still have a long life ahead of them!
I really thought I was dodging a bullet on the hair highlights, I commented to my precious hairdresser that I didn't need to come as often, only to find out the reason is because of greying! I'd call that premature, but you all know how old I am!
No one's life is perfect, but I have an amazing husband and wonderful kids, great extended family and we are so very blessed for everything!
"For we brought nothing into the world and we can take nothing out of it." 1 Tim 6:7
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