Wednesday was the first day of our second week. I had to go to a teaching class all morning, so I wore my jeans knowing I would be in the air conditioning for much of the day. I joined two of my teacher friends at Cracker Barrel for lunch. Much of the lunch conversation centered on shopping, clothes, and budgets, specifically blowing one's budget on clothes shopping. As I listened, I had to chuckle to myself, for it was the very thing I would be concentrating on NOT doing throughout the week.
I feel as if God is testing my commitment to this week's challenge in a first - world sort of way. I picked my shorts and tshirt combo for the day and went along my way to VBS. I spent the morning teaching, singing, eating, and playing outside with a small group of 3rd and 4th graders. By the time I got home, I was dirty and smelly, but I couldn't afford a change of clothes. So I just kept on keeping on.
Later, I took my son to get his hair cut. He sat on my lap and played with my phone while his golden curls fell on my arms, in my lap, in my mouth (?), and covered my shirt. If you've ever gotten a haircut, you know how itchy all that stray hair on your skin can be. Any person in his or her right mind would have changed clothes. I even changed Rowan's clothes! However, I would be the crazy person who kept my sweaty, itchy clothes on all day AND through the night because to do otherwise would be cheating.
...Now that I look at what I wrote, it sounds so trite. I'm applauding myself on keeping one outfit on all day?? I've had and seen students who wear the same thing three times in one week.
God, forgive me for praising my own feigned humility. Don't stop softening my heart and bending my attitude to mold me into Your perfect jar of clay.
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