you know the parable of the workers in the vineyard and how the ones who worked all day got ticked off that the ones who only worked an hour got paid the same amount as the ones who worked all day? well, i hereby resolve to stop being one of the workers who worked all day. or, more accurately, i hereby resolve to stop having the attitude of the workers who worked all day.
one of my friends just posted on f/b that she and her family are at the beach today. they are at the beach today because they just moved to oxford, pennsylvania and oxford, pennsylvania is close to the beach. and my first reaction when i read her post?
jealousy.
(or, more accurately, envy.)
my very first reaction when i read that leslie is at the beach because she now lives near the beach was a reaction that had nothing to do with leslie and everything to do with me. it was, in a nutshell, selfish.
it was, in a nutshell, a worker who worked all day.
what right do i think i have to tell God how to distribute His blessings? if God thinks leslie sleesman and her family ought to have the blessing of a beach, then i darned well better think so, too. not only should i not think that i have the right to tell God how to distribute His blessings, i should dance for joy that He has the wisdom i don't have to distribute them in a way that my pitiful human mind could never conceive of.
and so, i have resolved to stop myself, mid-sentence (if not sooner), whenever i catch myself saying, "i am sooooooooooooo jealous."
and now........i am off to walmart.
gratefully so.
