At Least be Grateful for What I DO Have
I was navigating my way home last night from work- through ANOTHER snowstorm. Although I have a tough-looking Dodge Magnum, it is one of the souped-down models without four-wheel drive (I got it because it was cheap, not because it made sense).
Wet squalls buffeted the vehicle; snow froze right to the windshield despite the fact that the defroster was going full-blast. I couldn’t see where the lanes were- just had to guess.
As I sweated down another hill and around a slick corner, I caught myself grumbling, “And as if the snow isn’t bad enough- I’m going to miss another day of work- and pay. Ugh.”
Then, almost embarrassingly (well, it WOULD have been embarrassing if another human had heard me whining), I heard a corrective “thought” down inside me.
“At least, you can be grateful for what you DO have.”
I mean, really. I was going home in a heated car to a heated home to enjoy a cup of hot tea. I could spend the next day watching the blizzard from safety. I could spend a day in wonder of the beauty that God placed in his creation.
So, that is what last night’s prayer looked like. It was just a list of those things that I have been so abundantly given by an abundantly giving God. Large and small gifts.
I don’t want to miss the good God is giving me by pouting.
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