Living With Me

      I will admit, I am not that easy to live with. Yet I have a list of people who want to come live with me. They call me 'anal', but somehow, they hear me and learn. When I start growing weary of this struggle, I suddenly see the results of all my exhortations, which gives me strength and encouragement!

I don't think I'm too bad tho. 

My thing is, every day that GOD gives me, I wake up feeling grateful and plan for today, that I do better than I did yesterday. Not in a monotonous way. I'm just always looking for a way to do something better. And when I find it, I want to share. Because most times it's all about saving water or time or money. I am frugal to a fault I suppose. 

I am also giving to a fault. Oh yes, I have been told this many times. But I don't see anything wrong with that because I am only trying to help others have a better life or time. Now you might find it natural for me to feed my kids before I eat, but some people don't. And if my kids wanted something I had, I didn't do like my mother and say no, I always gave them what I had for myself. Does that sound normal? Well, whatever... I see it as natural. When my kids were very young, I always shared my plate of food with them. (Waitresses loved that! they never had a mess from my kids!) I always fed them until they would stop eating. 

I believe this comes from my early childhood, a lesson from the Baptist Church. 'GOD is first, my friends and family are second and I am third.' Some people don't agree with that, but I am sure it's the way GOD wants us to be. Not selfish or self-centered, but more in line with a giving spirit who cares about others. 

And this, I am thinking is the key to people wanting to be with/around me. Because they can see and know that I care about them more than I care about myself. 

I think GODS purpose of this, is this... If we are caring about others, others are caring about us. 

But that is not the way the world is today. So many people, (I won't name names) have promoted selfishness. "It's all about me!" they think. And to top it off, they think it's good and OK for them to be this way. GOD knows better. If we all did our own thing, there would be no one there to help us when we need it. They will all be out there only helping themselves. 

Of course, I am going to thank GOD for HIS PEOPLE, who still today follow GODS major law, LOVE ONE ANOTHER. GOD doesn't tell us to LOVE ourselves. This is a huge deal to GOD.

YES, I am going to say something when you use my kitchen towel to clean up your dog pee on the floor. I am thinking it's better than me getting your bath towel and cleaning up my dog pee on the floor. Can you imagine the fight that would ensue? But what I did was, talk about it. "Hey, will you please not use the kitchen towel to clean up your dog pee on the floor?" she: "What's wrong with that?" me: "OK well then next time I find dog pee on the floor I am going to use your bath towel." she: "Oh no you're not!" OK then. Whew, she finally understood! (Besides, my dog uses a puppy pad even tho she's almost 7 years old.) They do go outside, but in the middle of the night. 

Yes, that was a real issue! And I did advise to use paper towels or a mop.

Can you imagine living in a house where everyone thought the world revolved around themselves? I can only imagine, but also GOD has shown me in my life when there are a bunch of selfish people in a room. It becomes a room of hatred because others are not into you and that makes a selfish person mad. 

I remember once when someone shouted to me, "The world doesn't revolve around you."  (She was stressed that day from her niece going to surgery) HAHAHA I fell out laughing... considering every move I make is usually for others. I mean I only take a shower for you... so you don't have to smell me! And every dime I get goes to pay bills for the house. I very seldom buy anything for myself. Even to the point of it being a fault. I say that because... I have diabetes. I am also very poor. I made 13000.00 last year. I get boxes of free food from the church and friends. In those boxes are loads of beans and rice. Now let me say I LOVE beans and rice. But my diabetes... whew... my A1c went from 7.3 to an 8.8 since our food cost has gone sky high. If it was up to me, I would go to the store and buy fresh fruits and veggies. But gas and utilities and home taxes have gone sky high, and they are a NEED. Oh, I guess I could say I 'need' fresh produce, but there are other people in this house, and we need to have the bills paid. Especially those bills. 

Yeah, you would think this would be a good thing for me to buy less food and lose weight. But the truth is what I had said before, the boxes of food I get has a lot of carbs. Carbs are cheaper food. So, until I can get rid of my diabetes... it's a sore point for me. On a positive note, I do have a good friend who has a great cucumber patch, and she brings me those yummy ones with the thin skin where a little salt makes it perfect! Wow, I am so happy that she cares enough about me to bring them!

See GOD works through other people to help us. 

You can see it happening in the world today! Only if you can see beyond the hate and crime and selfishness that Satan promotes in the world. 

I LOVE Christianity! Because it perfectly helps those who are not perfect!

Praise GOD Thank You Jesus! 

GOD Bless US Everyone! IJCNA