An Attitude of Gratitude

Ok, so last night I was laying in bed reminding myself "Betsy", I said, "you need to get an attitude of gratitude." And then like clock work I doze off. I do not know about you but I have this unique ability to sleep walk to the bathroom tee tee and get back in bed with out turning on the lights or even remotely waking up. Enter last night...

So with an "attitude of gratitude" being my last waking thought, I fall asleep and then it happened, my toilet pinched my butt. Let me say it again, my TOILET PINCHED my BUTT. At first it started with a little crack in the toilet seat, and now it seems that every time I sit on that stupid seat it grabs my butt and pinches away when I stand back up.

At that point my inner dialog did a serious 180! My thoughts went something like this, "If this toilet seat is here in ten days I am going to rip off this seat and chunk it out the window." Now if that isn't being grateful, I don't know what is? Attitude of gratitude... out the window last night

Interestingly enough this supposedly never happens to Luke. So I am sure that he is thinking to himself, lest I throw the toilet seat at him, "If you did not just plop your big fat fanny on the seat it might not pinch you all of the time." A thought I might add that I have pondered myself but would be seriously irate if it was ever uttered. In fact, when I asked Luke about the seat before, he wanted to know exactly how I was sitting on the seat, as if there are more ways than one to sit on a sit. But like a fool I proceed to tell him how I always lean to one side, obviously the cracked side, to get fresh and clean when I have finished my business. I am sure now he definitely is blaming the huge crack on me.

Its funny, when we bought our house it started as a faint crack that you could barely feel, but now it might as well be a seat with LONG fingernails just itching to pinch my fat fanny EVERYTIME I sit. Interesting how cracks can do that while tiny at first they are easy to overlook or ignore but soon enough that tiny crack will turn into something HUGE! It seems as if this has been a theme in my life and I am starting to put the pieces together, and it took God sending me a pinching toilet seat to get my attention. "Betsy deal with the faint lines in your life so that you do not have life pinching your behind.”

God definitely has a way to get my attention, I have to say this is the first time he has used a toilet seat, but hey you cannot put God in a box. Dear Lord, please give me your discernment to know how to handle the cracks in my life before they grow and become pinchers. I pray that you will give me an attitude of gratitude for all the things, good and bad in my life!