What Girls Get Wrong

We can find ourselves in a lot of traps as we're going along, trying to live for Christ and trying to act like one of His. One of the worst is the Self Pity Pit. I confess, I find myself falling into it when I'm really impatient about something in my life or really frustrated. But honestly, there's not much point to it. Instead, self pity is guaranteed to make you even more worse off than you were. And we can find ourselves "indulging" in it over the most ridiculous things. Let me give you a very recent example. After a series of health issues, I started on an elimination diet to see if I could pin point what is making me ill. For those of you who don't know what one is, it's basically where you take certain foods out of your diet for an extended period of time (usually 3-4 weeks). After that, you add one food in at a time for a day or so and see whether it causes a reaction. In other words, it's horrible (whoops, see what I mean? Self ...

So last week, you may have noticed that I posted on Tuesday instead of my usual Monday. I didn't forget, but I had what I feel was a reasonable excuse. I was sick. Like about to throw up sick. I woke up in the morning feeling absolutely terrible. I didn't call out of work, because usually when I feel sick in the morning it disappears within an hour or so. But this time it didn't. It actually got to the point where I had to step out a minute at work to try to avoid losing the few crackers I'd eaten that day. So when I finally got home, nauseated and my brain trying to get out of my skull, I pretty much just went to bed. Monday definitely didn't go my way. And considering I suffered residual symptoms a lot of last week, it wasn't a week of awesomeness for me. It stunk. I had so many plans... Sometimes, though, God lets our plans get spoiled because He has better ones. He allows things to happen so He can turn it around for His glory, so no one ca...