Our toilet handle falls off now and again. It’s loose. So yesterday my daughter went to flush the toilet and the handle fell in and woosh. Gone into the plumbing.
So there I was with the plumbing snake with the claw on the end trying to retrieve this thing for about half an hour. Nothing.
Well, at least I can get a new toilet handle. So I dash off to Home Depot, pick one up and as I’m installing it I break it. Grrrr. I storm off out of the bathroom thinking that nothing ever ever ever goes right for me. As I storm out, I passed the heater which keeps my home at 68 degrees no matter what the temperature is outside, I pass by my computer which connects me to the internet, I pass by my fully stocked refrigerator, I pass by my wonderful wife, and I pass by my five beautiful children.
And I sit on the couch and think that nothing ever goes right for me.
March 5, 2012 at 8:54 am
LOL! Oh, how I can relate to this! 🙂
March 5, 2012 at 1:56 pm
FYI (Instead of Home Depot, please try Lowes/True Value or the local hardware store):
"Home Depot Hosts Children’s Workshop at Gay Pride Festival"
"Home Depot pledges to continue support for gay agenda despite massive petition/boycott"
March 5, 2012 at 3:52 pm
I can so identify with that! I can get so wrapped up in one thing not going the way I want it too, that I pass right by all the things that are working just fine on my way to the couch. Fortunately the Lord loves us even when we are oblivious to our multitude of blessings.
March 5, 2012 at 4:13 pm
I can't say I've ever phrased it that way– mine is usually "Why can't I do anything right?!?!"
A bit harder to counter, sadly. -.-
March 5, 2012 at 5:28 pm
Accentuate the positive………
Karl
March 5, 2012 at 7:13 pm
May God bless you even more so.
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March 6, 2012 at 4:29 am
The phrase "first-world problems" keeps passing through my head this Lent. (So many opportunities for gratitude, so often I complain instead… Sigh!)