Lessons

God sure has been giving me my share of lessons this Christmas season. A great way to end the year that is for sure. A couple of really recent ones were:

Lesson 1: This Sunday at church there was a sing-a-long and testimonies. I had a terrible cold so that I was unable to sing. I love to sing. I may not be as good as many, but I do love to sing. I couldn't sing. The lesson: LISTEN!! That is really hard for me. I want to sing, I want to talk. But God wanted me to listen.

Lesson 2: I cannot control others feelings or attitudes. They may not like what I have to say. They may treat me poorly as they don't like I how I feel. I have to rise above the attitude and still show I care. The Lord loves us all. We do not have to agree on things, we do not have to have it "fair". Others may get, even though they never worked for it. They are still loved by God and my attitude may mean the difference between them accepting Christ or not. I do have an impact in my attitude.

Lesson 3: I was at a Christmas party and several of us sat down to play a game. Player A, Player B, Player C and myself sat to play. I love to play games, but I do not like to play competitively. I like to play for fun. I don't care about winning. So Player C sat down and told how she hated to play with certain other people because they are way too cometitive. Player C wanted to keep score and I said that I didn't like to keep score, I would rather just play. I was out-voted. We were going to keep score. So we atarted play. We were playing scrabble. Player B made her word. Player C made her word. I made my word and Player B counted out my points. Player C said that wasn't right. You couldn't count the previous laid letter. I thought it was for fun. Player C has to be the winner. I decided that what others see in others is something that they battle themselves. So I took a long look at myself and decided that I was going to get too competitive also and that would ruin the game for the others. So I decided that I would rather visit with people rather than play the game and have hurt feelings. So, I stopped playing and asked another girl to take my place. Player C and I both love to win. Although we approach it differently, I choose not to keep score and play for fun. While she plays competitiviely (to win) and does not see that hurt she may cause to others. While Player A and Player B just sat there and let her have her way.

Which brings me to my conclusion. God made us all different and all of us are working on different things at different times. We can only worry about ourselves and try to guide the others in God's love for all.