“Honey,” my beautiful wife told me. “I have some bad news.”
My tendency towards catastrophizing kicked into
overdrive. “Is there something wrong
with one of the children?” I asked. “Did you have an accident?”
“No, nothing like that,” Elaine reassured me.
“Then what?” I was
out of catastrophes that my mind could think of, although given another minute
or two, I think I could have come up with more farfetched disasters.
“Well, as I was getting into the minivan, the door handle
came off in my hand,” Elaine said. “Now,
you have to get someone to open the door for you from the inside – or you can
go around to the passenger’s side and open it yourself.”
“Oh,” I said. “Well,
at least that is fixable.”
It is fixable, but it will take several days for the part to
come in. In the meantime, it is a
struggle to get into the driver’s side of our van – and even more of struggle
to drive if you don’t.
On the bright side of things, it is much harder for thieves
to break into our van. In fact, no one
has stolen our van, nor anything out of it since this occurrence.
(I’m guessing that when thieves see our van, they run
screaming in the other direction. But I
digress.)
I Thessalonians 5:18 says, “In every thing give thanks: for
this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.”
For whatever reason, our human tendency is not to appreciate
the things that we have. Health is
something that many take for granted until such time as they are forced to
wander into my office due to illness.
I trust that we can learn to value the things we have before
we no longer have them. Counting
blessings is an important step to experiencing a happier life.
I can say for certain that I have never been as thankful for a
door handle on a vehicle as when my wife demonstrated her mighty strength by tearing
ours off.
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