Good lesson from one of my favorite co-workers today...
"Some people just don't know how to look at the blessings."
She was describing a situation a friend of hers was struggling with in which she had a NYE party she really wanted to go to that was out of town, but couldn't find a babysitter for her child. The friend explained that there was another party in the apartment community right where she lived, but that she just really wanted to go to this other party and was extremely disappointed that she wouldn't be able to. The friend said she was so upset that she hadn't heard back from the babysitter that she was crying the night before.
My wise co-worker got off the phone with her friend, described the conversation to me and then sighed, "Some people just don't know how to look at the blessings."
Her friend had a family-friendly party option right in her own backyard, but was too busy pouting to be thankful for it.
How often am I so focused on what I want, that I refuse to be grateful for what God has provided? I want the far-away thing. The glamorous option. And I'm so caught up in stomping my feet and throwing a fit because I can't attain it, that I can't see my proverbial forest for the trees.
Maybe it's time to stop straining to see what's over the horizon and check out the beauty I'm sitting in right now.
