Thanks to all of you who wished me a happy birthday yesterday. Those of you who didn’t I understand. I mean it’s not every year that you turn 26, but it has been for me for the last sixteen years so you might have thought you already sent your happy birthday wishes for this one. Of course you might have been dealing with frozen water pipes like I was. You don’t appreciate how much you depend on water being there until it’s not. I guess a lot of things are like that. The frozen pipes meant that I couldn’t make my coffee in the morning. This meant that I wasn’t thinking clearly for a while. This made finding the frozen pipe that much more challenging.
As I read what I just wrote it strikes me how spoiled I am. As well as losing weight I have decided to read the Bible this year. Yesterday’s experience and camping last October adds some perspective to what I’m reading. I don’t pretend to really “get it” because these people had to make their own stuff, dig their wells, build shelters, and generally do a lot more just to get by than I have to do now. I came somewhat closer when I was an Infantryman in the Army, but even then we had equipment and they brought us water and food.
Today’s Bible reading makes this point even more clear. I whine about not being able to brew my morning coffee. Job lost everything and still praised God. Job remembered who all the stuff belonged to in the first place. I tend to forget this point. It’s not that I intentionally forget. I just get used to the small things that I have that are not guaranteed. If I bring out of that a better appreciation of what I have then I have been given something great.
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