“My child, mind your own business…” This is the message I received from My Daily Bread this morning. What a way to start the day, right? 😉 After reflecting on yesterdays message – “How can you find fault with others, you who are so full of faults yourself?…Work and fight against your own defects, and you will be too busy to be annoyed by your neighbor’s defects.” I was in a quandary because I wasn’t having any ‘issues’ with finding irritating faults in others or feeling as if I was trying to get into other people’s business so that only left ME being the issue. 🙁
I felt like a puppy dog being scolded for a mess I produced days before but my Master only found the stain now. What did I do? I questioned with my ears drawn back and my tail between my legs. The lesson this morning went on to advise – “It is far more profitable for you to look at yourself and judge yourself…Get to work and correct your own faults you will then be too busy to be annoyed by the faults of others.” Wait a second…didn’t yesterday’s lesson basically say the same thing? 🙁
Okay, so apparently I need to be hit over the head twice. At the time of reading both lessons, as I mentioned, none of it was perplexing at the time because I didn’t feel any issue with this particular topic…until today. It felt like every given opportunity there was one person or another rubbing me the wrong way (or making it obvious that I was rubbing them the wrong way as well, and rightfully so. 😉 ) Including my oldest son!
Sure enough the two day’s lessons gnawed at the edges of every situation forcing me to sit in my own funk and look at myself first, which is never fun. I won’t come off as an angel. I’m still tangled up inside with a mass of irritation but I have not voiced it, lost my cool and I’ve done my best to diffuse it by seeing where I might be at fault. I’ve got the lesson but this is still one of those days I just want to have that glass of wine, veg and then begin again tomorrow with a brand new day.
Blessings
Shannon