Consider Your Blessings!

Yesterday Katherine got pretty upset with me. Matthew always gets 2 cookies in his lunch box and she asked me to make her a couple when it was near time for him to come home. I got the stuff out and then she said, "Please don't make any for Matt." I asked her why? She told me it wasn't fair that she would only get 2 for the whole day and Matt would get 4. I made some for Matt anyway and told her not to worry about what other people got as long as she was getting some herself. While the cookies where baking she asked me again not to give Matt any and I told her not to ask again or she wouldn't get any. Then she asked again! I couldn't believe her. This is so unlike Katherine to keep on. I said, "Katherine, I am not being unfair. I would never be that way with either of you. Understand that I see a bigger picture than you do. Matt has lunch at 10:30 in the morning. He is very hungry when he comes home. He runs around all day while you sit here doing book work."
We are all just ants on a canvas. All we see is what is right in front of us. We are not viewing our lives the way God does. All the things that happen in our lives are occuring because God is leading us in a direction. If we could just see the "MONA LISA" He is creating, maybe we wouldn't resist so much. It's funny when you teach your children because sometimes you teach yourself. Don't worry what "so and so" has. God may have given them that for a reason that we don't see. I just thought this morning on the way to take Matthew to school what a wonderful blessing he gave us with the puppies. Everything went so well that it couldn't have gone better. They were all born healthy, all lived and thrived, Patch did fine. What a wonderful experience and memory to look back on. Stop and think about the blessing you have, even the little ones. Did your checkbook balance this week? Did that bug spray work? Did your car start this morning? Did you have a good day at work? These all matter! Thank God for this day! If it turns out bad, so what! It's a swirl or a new color in your canvas of life!