Often we are told to mind our own business; not to be nosy. I disagree I think we should be nosey; in fact if you will allow this horrible rhyme, our outlook on life would be a bit more rosey!
As I was sitting and chatting after my Zumba class, one of the women and I were talking about my husband traveling and how hard it can be etc, she looked at me and thanked me. "For what" I said. "You just made my day a little bit brighter. I am thankful now that I can go to HomeDepot with my husband and argue over paint colors" after laughing we began discussing home projects. I told her of my nightmare bath remodel where I discover layers of concrete were holding my tile to the walls. She again thanked me, she had been dreading the painting of a room, and I made her project look easy.
Funny how a little information about someone else can make your problems seem not so big.
Going through a recent company merger, oh the stress that entailed! My husband perchance not having a job, maybe no severance, a landlord who is new to the world of landlording, no money to move back to our house, no money to eat if we paid the bills. The apparent decline of our careful filling in of the hole we call debt; about to be dug right back down to the bottom maybe even worse than before. Then a story of a family who lost it all who didn't have a home to go to. Who would have no money to choose between bills or food. Suddenly I was thankful for what we had.
All the rain we have had in Pennsylvania the minor floods and general sogginess; seemed to be something to complain about. The earthquake and subsequent Tsunamis, changed that...... Thankful that our houses and cars and lives are still here, Thankful my child is not stationed in Japan, now am I. Before where I saw reason to complain I see reasons to be thankful.
All things in life can give us call to complain about our strife; but if we are just a little nosy, just a little, we may find that no matter how bad things are in our lives, we are still blessed to have what we have. We still have much to be thankful for even when life isn't going our way. God still has blessed us.
