I was feeling sorry for myself today, actually for the past week.  Rob's late work

hours take a toll and sometimes I give in to exhaustion and even self pity.  I was going to

take a nap while my toddler took hers and while the boys played quietly - but instead God

had me read a few pages from a book called "Everyday Greatness."  It's amazing to me

how God is concerned with even our little pity parties.  He doesn't approve of them, but He cares enough to pull us out of them, just ask Him for help.

Being married to a man like Rob - there is no time for pity parties.  He keeps going

with or without me.  God has used this characteristic in Rob to teach me some hard lessons.  While I lay there in bed crying, Rob is working hard to accomplish goals and visions that only he can see.  I either get up and get with it (as Rob would say, "Suck it up") or lay there all by my lonesome self -

I decided to share this personal story to show that God cares enough to pick us

up when we're down and teach us something through it.  Following are some excerpts from the book - God was speaking so clearly to me - it was "A word fitly spoken."

I read four stories of men who gave selflessly to make a difference in the lives of people around them (some strangers, others famly, etc...)  It was very touching - I honestly wept as I read.  

"It is in spending oneself that one becomes rich."  - Sarah Bernhardt

"The dead take to the grave, clutched in their hands, only what they have given away."   - DeWitt Wallace

"True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic.  It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost." -Arthur Ashe

"The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality." -  Ralph Emerson

"The ultimate test of man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard."  -Gaylord Nelson

"Seldom can a heart be lonely if it seeks a lonelier still, self-forgetting, seeking only emptier cups to fill."  - Frances Ridly Havergal

"To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own."  - Abraham Lincoln

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Then God led me to the following Scriptures - I hope this will encourage someone else.

Prov 31:27

27 She looks well to how things go in her household, and the bread of idleness (gossip, discontent, and self-pity) she will not eat.
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1 Tim 5:14

14 So I would have younger [widows] marry, bear children, guide the household, [and] not give opponents of the faith occasion for slander or reproach.
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Titus 2:5

5 To be self-controlled, chaste, homemakers, good-natured (kindhearted), adapting and subordinating themselves to their husbands, that the word of God may not be exposed to reproach (blasphemed or discredited).
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