Greener Grass.

Most of us have those days when someone else’s life looks so much nicer. They have a bigger house. They drive a nicer car or make more money. They have more kids or less kids or whatever the case may be. But we find ourselves looking longingly at their life while wrinkling our noses at our own life. But God has given us all a path to walk and we are called to walk it with joy for Him. And while someone else’s life might look more pleasant or easier have you really stopped to consider everything?

When you’re weary of fixing yet another meal and doing dishes yet again, somebody wishes they had food to put on the table.

When you’ve folded and put away a(nother) mountain of laundry, somebody wishes their children had proper coats and hats to wear to school.

When you’re groaning over the highest heating bill yet this year, somebody wishes they weren’t so cold.

When you’re losing sleep and gagging over a child’s stomach bug episode, somebody is praying for a miracle over her child’s hospital bed.

When the exhaustion and nausea of the first trimester are about to do you in, somebody is weeping (yet again) over a negative pregnancy test.

When your headache intensifies over your teen’s college financial paperwork, somebody is visiting the site of her teen’s fatal wreck.

When you wake up to another cloudy, rainy day, somebody is praying for moisture to end a season of drought.

When you pick up your husband’s dirty socks and take out the trash because he forgot, somebody is wishing that for just a moment she didn’t have to do it all alone, all the time.

So, when you feel as if your life is too hard and you just can’t go on. Let’s think of others and it will help to put it all into perspective. I have used this for several weeks now, ever since I read this and I know for me, it has totally changed my outlook on the temporal things of this world. Things today that weigh us down and cloud our outlook will soon enough pass away. Because…

Ecclesiates 3:1-8
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.