My oh My

It has been a long time since I have updated last. Not too much has happened of late. Regionals starts Dec. 12th. We are off from Knox this week. Tomorrow we are having Thanksgiving dinner with a good friend of ours. Her birthday was yesterday and I am getting her flowers tomorrow. I need to trim my bangs; I don't like it when they get in my eyes. Trixy's feet need to be trimmed. I haven't soaked them at all since last time he trimmed them. Not good, definitely not good. I went to this place called Patten Towers today. Basically it is a governmental home for poor people. We served them Thanksgiving dinner and my Pastor preached the Gospel to them. It was kind of sad to see how some of those people lived. The building was filthy. Everything smelled like cigarette smoke (((NASTY!))). All the people looked poor. I felt incredibly blessed. It was one of my first experiences at that kind of thing. I still have a pretty limited perspective of that sort of lifestyle. I was about to tell you what I thought about it, but I listened to someone wiser than I and refrained from doing so. It would probably have sounded pretty ignorant and I am glad I did not.

I can be a mighty selfish person at times, but I realize it and I am being worked on. I dislike myself when I continue to be selfish even when I know I am being selfish. I don't like it when I or other people have the mentality of, “I want it, I should have it, I don't care who gets hurt in the process of me having it, I want, I...Me...Mine...gimme, gimme, gimme, my name's jimmy”. The mindset of, “if you give me that it would make me happy, what? Why can't I have it? I told you it would make me happy! Don't you want me to be happy?! CAN YOU BELIEVE THESE PEOPLE, THEY WON'T GIVE ME WHAT I WANT!!!! I'm gonna die! I can't stand this any longer!!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Have you ever met anyone like this?
Was it pleasant to be around them?
Now that we are aware of the effect that this kind of attitude can have on people, are we going to change the way we act?
Some of us will and some of us won't. Some of us will get mad and cuss.
If you get mad and cuss, I will love you anyway.