Christmas just passed and the new year is almost here. I hope nobody stressed too much and that you are all relaxed from celebrating this most beautiful, wondrous time of the year. And that you are ready to welcome 2007 with all of its promises. If you're the teeniest bit stressed, I'd like you to stop for a few minutes and contemplate the points in the following message that one of my daughters received from her mother in law who'd received it from someone else. The original sender has been lost on the electron highway.
"The head of a company survived 9/11 because his son started kindergarten. Another fellow was alive because it was his turn to bring donuts. A woman was late for work at the twin towers because her alarm clock didn't go off on time. One person was late because an auto accident closed the New Jersey Turnpike. Another missed his bus.
"One spilled food on her clothes and took time to change. Another's car wouldn't start.
"Another went back to answer the telephone. One couldn't get a taxi, another had a child that dawdled.
"One man put on a new pair of shoes which gave him blisters, so before he arrived for work at the Pentagon, he stopped to buy a Band-Aid.
"Now, when I'm stuck in traffic, miss an elevator, turn back to answer a ringing telephone, all the little things that annoy me, I think to myself, 'this is exactly where God wants me to be at this very moment.'
"The next time your morning seems to be going wrong, the children are slow at getting dressed, you can't find the car keys, you hit every red light, don't get mad or frustrated; God is at work watching over you. May God continue to bless you with all those annoying little things and may you remember their possible purpose."
I think this message about the little annoyances in our lives, especially as we begin a new year, should remind us that our reactions to whatever happens to us are the key to feeling God's love.
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