2.17.2014

First World Problems...

This morning I woke up (I'm alive...and in a warm bed) with my face *still* hurting.  This is THE worst sinus infection I've ever had.  I'm on day 5 of antibiotics (I have medicine) and I'm still super sick (with something that WILL go away).
I helped get the kids downstairs and got their brekkie ready then got in the shower.  I dispensed too much Breathe oil in the tub and then dropped something several times [(oh, the humanity!)while in my nice, hot shower], and thought "oh it's gonna be THAT kind of day"...
I came downstairs (on my own two feet) to find a cup of coffee waiting in the kitchen for me.  My gracious husband had the NERVE to put sugar in the cup when he KNOWS (or *should* know) that the coffee cream is plenty sweet (seriously, Jessica???).  So I HAD to make another cup, because you just CAN'T undo too much sweet & I freaked out because I didn't want to waste anything.  Sean offered to drink the too-sweet coffee.  The NERVE.  (Again...seriously, Jessica???)
I took my round of meds to help me get well (again - I HAVE meds to take), and cursed the fact that I've been walking around with a hot water bottle on my face for the last week (we have a hot water bottle.  Wait - we have hot water!)...
As I stood there adding some sweet cream to my new cup of coffee, it hit me like a BRICK - I have such a BAD ATTITUDE!  Instantly regretful, I was also filled with thanks that I have a bed, a warm home, a shower AND hot water at our dispense, clothes, a functional body, warm drinks and more food than we really need, a caring husband and two wonderful children, two dogs that love me - no questions asked, and a whole host of other things that I'm too blind to see.  I mixed the two cups of coffee back and forth so that neither one of us would be overwhelmed by sweet, and thanked the good Lord above that I live in such a place that I can care for myself and my family.  Maybe not always the way I want to, but we're provided for.


25 “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?
28 “So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; 29 and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
31 “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’32 For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the dayis its own trouble.
Matthew 6:25-34