Warm and Fuzzy

Have you ever seen that ECard that reads "I have really great taste, i just don't have the money to prove it"? When I saw that the other day I just about laughed so hard (inside my head of course - otherwise I'd have busted a seam...I mean a stitch) that I cried. It was one of those funny-cause-it's-true moments. I thought about that ECard tonight as I say nursing Noah and was looking around our master bedroom. With towels & curtains draped over wooden panels and 70s wallpaper this room could use a little Extreme Home Makeover. I began thinking to myself "if only..." which is never a good thing to allow your mind to think. I was able to stop those thoughts however. If not only because of a Facebook status Joyce Meyers posted something like two weeks ago. In the post she said something to the effect of "Do not allow your thoughts to take control of your life - allow God to be the only thing to be on control". It spoke to me in that moment tonight when I could've easily started dreaming those big DIY dreams. I'm not saying that it's wrong to have goals for your life or to make little DIY projects but it is wrong of you're only doing it because you aren't happy with where you are in your life at this very momet. And as I sat staring at my blanket curtains I realized I wasn't just brainstorming - I was self loathing. That's not what God wants. He wants us to be happy and to find joy where we are right this very moment. In all things we should praise Him. If we become too preoccupied obsessing over what we don't have - we can never be truly happy right where God has placed us in this very moment. So tonight I rejoice in our blanket curtains and I will feel nostalgic and not nauseous about our 70s wallpaper. I will rejoice in this day that the Lord has made. He loves me, after all. He doesn't see me as a DIY project, He doesn't preoccupy Himself in what I could be - because He already knows what that is. Tonight I will simply dwell on knowing that, much like my blanket curtains, the Lord loves me and sees me as doing a job well done with what little I have to offer. He sees me not for the designer curtains I could be but for the warm, cozy blanket He has intended for me to be at this very moment in my life. Frankly, I think this little sleeping baby on my chest much prefers his momma blanket anyhow ;)