HUMBLE PIE!  OH MY OH MY!!

AND now literally minutes after finishing my neat and tidy blog

entry about compassion and walking alongside people in their tough

times, I just failed miserably with my own sweet husband.  Why are

we always slowest to serve those who are most treasured to us?

In the midst of this frozen tundra Rich ran out to run errands and

get special ‘sleepover’ treats for Lilli’s sleepover tonight.  He

called to check in from the grocery store to say he was off to

get Ryann early so as not to let the weather get in the way of they

girl's sleepover. And instead of me saying great honey thanks be safe,

I make some sarcastic remarks about him panicking in the weather!

He let me have it with, “Donna, sometimes you have so little compassion

when it is not something that you relate to”!

At the risk of being a BIG FAT HYPOCRITE, I will still post my entry, but

know that I have apologized to my sweet hubby and will try harder!

Every day!

Donna’s Life Application Verse For Today!!

Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone. John 8:7

who says God doesn't have great timing and a sense of humor!!!

Baghhahhahah...

ORIGINAL POST BEFORE DESSERT OF HUMBLE PIE!

I Am With You…..

Sometimes you feel as if you are in a free fall, when people or things you had counted on

let you down.  Especially people, and when they let you down its hard.  You feel hurt and

sometimes alone.

Yet I am always with you; you hold me by my right hand. Psalm 73:23

I Am With You. These four words are a safety net, protecting you from falling into despair.  Remembering this

changes your perspective radically.  Not only is He with me, but he is holding my hand.

Misery Loves Company…..

Obviously, I’m not the sharpest crayon in the box, but I never knew the phrase

Misery Loves Company meant you wanted to bring someone down to your level so they

too were miserable – that in making them feel badly about themselves you in turn feel better

about yourself.

God wired me with a little extra dose of compassion and for that I am grateful.

I thought it was simply that every battle is fought harder and made lighter when

someone is walking with you. And as I grow in his grace and trust in His

provisions for knowing best, I am more easily able to walk beside without 

becoming codependent. But wow, I missed the real meaning behind

 Misery Loves Company! And that’s ok!

My version of Misery Loves Company….

Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, 

they came every one from his own place… for they had made an appointment together to

come to mourn with him and to comfort him. Job 2:11

No matter what our foundations,

Let’s be the friend who comes from our own place…to comfort others.