I Stood There Mortified…

8-21am

Complaining can happen so quickly and unintentionally that it’s going to be a whole new way of controlling one’s tongue and mind to make sure it doesn’t happen. Yesterday, I was in a supermarket buying chicken kebabs for dinner. I selected my 8 from the display and then looked for someone at the scale to weigh them. The closest person  was the  lady behind the counter at the cold meat deli. She said, ‘weigh them at the butcher.’ As I walked towards the queue at the butcher’s counter, I immediately grumbled (hopefully she couldn’t hear me) that this is the problem with this place is that they are not as geared up for the open selection food as the shop at the other end of the mall. As the the final words were coming out my mouth, to my horror, I realised I was COMPLAINING! So  I stuttered and spluttered and said in a high pitched voice,  ‘but this is just fine!!’  Then I stood there mortified! It was the 4th Jan and I had complained. I had blown it on the 2nd, decided I wasn’t going to complain ever again on the 3rd and now I had complained on the 4th! I felt very small. This was certainly going to be harder than I first imagined. Then, as I was on the point of berating myself even further, an angel appeared – Abigail. She swept out from behind the butcher’s counter, passed the queue and making a beeline for me, she took my kebabs and went off to weigh them. Somehow, I felt forgiven! I went away determined to cut the complaint off in my mind already! Don’t let it germinate into a thought. Then it won’t become a word and drop off my tongue.

Philippians 2:14-15

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” ― Winston Churchill

God bless you loads!

In His Grip,

Helga xx 🙂

Gratitude pic… I kept forgetting to put a new cake of soap in my shower. Yesterday morning after showering with the slivers the night before, I remembered to restock.  Last night when I went to shower, as I got in, I immediately felt a little grateful that I had remembered…