I don’t know about you, but I have never praised God for letting me do household chores! No, I hate to admit it, but I have never seen that as a privilege or honor. I do keep a neat and pretty clean home out of necessity but not out of showing love to my family.
God says that our hardships will help us see how blessed we truly have it. Yesterday was one of those days for me! I DO WINDOWS! Yes, I was feeling so good yesterday – Praise God – that I did laundry, vacuumed the house, scrubbed floors, clean bathrooms, and I washed some windows. What was different this time compared to the last 10 years? I wasn’t taking my health for granted. I would do a task and then sit down and see how I felt. I was good. I would get back up and move on to the next task. Sit down and see how I felt – and continued with the pattern. As I was even cleaning the toilets, I was praising God that I was feeling so well only 1.5 weeks after my treatment.
This may seem like a little thing – it’s not! After feeling so sick for that first week – always thinking I should stay close to my “special bowl”, it felt incredible to be able to work like I use to work – when I didn’t even think about it.
How many other things has God put into our lives that have become so routine – so normal – so taken for granted? Do you take your health for granted? Do we take our families for granted? Our talents and gifts for granted? I plan on taking time to praise God for everything in my life – the good, the bad, and the ugly! I plan on finding all the little blessings that I never chose to look at as a blessing! How much different our daily chores could be if we saw them as blessings! One of my dear friends told me that she has learned this lesson and this is what helped her – if her husband or kids leave a mess, when she cleans it up she throws up a prayer – “Thanks God that (fill in the name) is here!” She turns her chores into blessings!
SO... let’s go out there into this world and DO WINDOWS!