Think Before You Speak

Many of you know that hot weather is not my thing. It definately does not bring out my most patient side. Not something I am proud of but atleast I am working on it and honest enough to admit it is a short coming of mine. But I knew it would be a day that I would need help from the Lord, so I was sure to start my day with my devotion as I am making more of an effort to start my day with Him rather than call upon His name just in my time of need. Or more so, to start my day in frustration and then seek Him after than. But as I was saying, I started my day reading, in Proverbs, about sharing the joy of the Lord. So I decided, as my cell rang, that during this heat wave I would go ahead and invite the friend over for the use of the pool that I am not sure I would want to be without right now. She willingly accepted the invitation for her and her two children to come over. So here I am now needing to tidy up. On the top of that list was to run the vaccum quickly over the grass pieces run through the house by the children from the lawn being cut, the pine needles that endlessly seem to hitch a ride on one of the children, and to suck up that dirt that needed a ride back to the softball field that Kamden seems to think he can take home in his shoes to add to his sandbox.


Dustin was so willing to help in order to ease some of my frustrations that were already seeming to boil. (I guess he could tell by the steaming lava face. And I don't mean that in an angry manner. I was that my face was so red from the heat.) As I toss in a load of laundry, he decides to start the vaccum but in doing so detached the belt. Which I then tried to reattach and broke. Now I was red from the blinders that only allowed me to see that he had "broken" my vaccum. Neglecting to see that he was trying to help, and that I in actuality had truley broken the vaccum belt. I sent him away since the lava was now boiling over.


As he went crying to his room, I thought...what are you doing? Where is the joy? Moments later this sweet boy comes out of his room with a few dollar bills and some change in his hands. I felt horrible. Wow, did the Lord know my day before it started. What a blessing that He tries to prepare us if we are willing to listen.


"The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love." Proverbs 103:8