At sometime in our lives, most of us will find ourselves backed into a corner, often one of our own making, but we want to blame others for our bad luck when in reality we often do not realize that we bring many of our misfortunes upon ourselves by either not being careful, a good manager or by being arrogant.
Bankruptcies can happen to us simply because we want to keep up with or ahead of the Jones not realizing that money doesn’t bring happiness! Living like the rich and famous can actually do more to drive wedges between people than to heal wounds.
The people I have known who were most caring tended to live “the purpose driven life” as outlined in Rick Warren’s book.
It is really hard for us to see our own mistakes but easy to see the faults of others.
What we most often do not see is that when we find fault, when we nit-pick, we will usually find many of the same faults in our own lives!
To think not is to not own up to our own mistakes.
It is hard to count our blessings when we are picking on others that we think aren’t living up to our expectations when we may be just mad at ourselves for our impulsive mistakes of living beyond our means.
We need to be careful when judging because we might find the rugs being jerked out from under our own feet so quickly — as night follows day.
It is easier to be grateful while we feel loved within our secure knit circle of family and friends who love us unconditionally. It is easier to be grateful now than to retrieve our blessings, once they are gone.
What happens to another can happen to us. To think not is to be naive.
A total stranger approached me years ago when we lived in Plain Dealing. Out of the blue she said “I never could understand people who write poetry but now that my brother was lost at sea, never to return, I am writing poetry.”
I knew what she was talking about because I wrote poetry to survive emotionally.
It takes a lifetime of experience to learn how to cope and to reach out to others, to understand each others viewpoint.
Sometimes we never will understand.
A friend said “when they are lowering me in my grave I will sit up in the coffin and say “hey wait a minute, I have it all figured out.”
We will never have it all figured out.
I believe that many of our accidents are brought upon us when we become arrogant and let our pride blind us to the truth that “pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.”
We need to turn our problems over to God because He can handle situations and move mountains at lightning speed that would astound even the un-believer!
We all need someone to care.
It’s been said that when we point a finger at others there are three fingers pointing back at us.
Back to the bottom line. We need to be grateful and try to turn our problems over to God because it is still true that we are rich if we have someone to love, something to do and something to hope for.
The people I love to talk to and write tributes for are those dear sweet people who made a difference in my life as a child, who led me to a brighter day, to Christ.
Where would I be today without those caring friends from my childhood?
Turning our problems over to God gives us a peace that passes understanding and strengthens our faith, knowing He is in control!
He can do all the things for us that are out of our control!
When will we ever learn?
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