Weeeeeeeee!

This is a word that a dear friend says and I have adopted it for myself.  In general it is used to express delight and joy and sometimes for me, it can even be used to express other emotions as well.   Today has been a pretty good day but also a day of frustrations and joys.  Today I learned about the way one must orient the car when parking on city streets around the university campus.  In case you didn’t know, you are supposed to park your car with the flow of traffic, not against.  So, as Dave Ramsey the financial guy says, I am having to pay some “stupid tax”.  This is my own fault.  I think I should know better but the interesting thing to me is that “stupid tax” lessons typically come for me at times when there isn’t a lot extra in the bank account.  The verse that comes to mind right now is in 1 Thessalonians… I believe it says something like…in everything give thanks for this is the will of God for you in Christ Jesus.  So now is my chance to make the choice to be grateful for the way He allows me to learn life’s lessons and that He lovingly teaches me these things in ways that aren’t too much for me to handle even though sometimes it may seem that I’m on the edge.  I’m grateful that the price for learning that lesson wasn’t worse and that nothing else happened.  You know, and as I think about it, there are sooo many great things that God does for us that we don’t even thank him for.  Things like the way my toddler daughter was not harmed after she got a hold of a sample of a muscle relaxer last week and that the test for birth defects for the baby growing inside me came back normal.  These are things God doesn’t owe me in the least but that he choses in his kindness to do for us.  There are many other things just as wonderful and were I to mention them all, I would run out of time.  All that to say, “thanks, Lord.  For the way you take care of my family and me.”