I always do a lot of writing and I read a lot of different blogs from a variety of people from a lot of different backgrounds. I always find it refreshing to know that other people around me have the same daily struggles that I have. I was talking to a friend Sunday at church about a blog I read and I told her I thought about doing one myself and she responded go for it…so here it goes!

You might wonder why I said we live in a fish bowl…well….being the youth ministers family it always seems everyone is watching as soon as we walk into the door of the church and everywhere we go for that matter. I grew up in a church were the ministers family always seemed to have it “all together”…and once my family became the ministers family I thought we were supposed to have it “all together”…haha..boy was I wrong. Anyone that knows me knows we do not have it all together and guess what I have finally realized it is alright. If you see me  pinching Palmer on his shoulder during church it is because he is begging for communion, if you see me talking thru my teeth at Pierce it is because he is whining about something and if you see Piper with us it is because I made her leave her precious Gaga’s house to be with us.

My only quiet time is during my lunch break which I come home to a quiet house most days and I have my conversations with God about regrouping my life so I like to call it. Today was one of them days at work that I wanted to hurt someone to be honest. My job at DSS is stressful at times and today was one of those days. Nothing was going like I thought it should. I came home in a foul mood at lunch. My devotion that is emailed to me daily had a couple of verses that spoke to me and I wanted to share. Philippians 2:4 “Don’t look out only for your own interests, but take others, too.”   The other verse was Acts 20:35 ^“ In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ ”

Every day I am amazed at how God uses different people and situations to clear speak to us and remind us… Rebecca you crazy self centered person it isn’t about you.