Hot Showers

This morning I wake up like usual at 5:45 am, and like usual I didn’t want to get up to go to work. I just start giving rounds and rounds in the bed not wanting get up and trying to find any excuse to not get up.  I kick my-self out of the bed, go to my kids’ room, and wake them up.  They are worse than me! I head to my bathroom to take my shower. Was really cold in my bathroom. I turn on the shower, and give couple of rounds waiting for the water turns hot.  After a couple of minutes I check and still cold! Hate cold water specially when is so cold outside. I check, I opened too much, and when I do that my water does not turns hot.

Standing there, touching with the tip or my finger the water waiting to turn hot, I start remembering when I went to Dominican Republic for a mission trip of 10 days.  I was in a town where there is not water or electricity. The floor is mud and there are no roads. Women get up at 5:00 am everyday to prepared the breakfast, lunch and dinner all at the same time, imaging how hot will be the dinner? (No microwave!) There are no showers they have a four wood together with cubes with water to take showers there. The time that I spend in that town (3 days to be exact) I didn’t take a shower was way too cold for me (wipes the best invention!). What about the people that live there? They do not have that option.

Today, I am really glad of all the things that I have good and bad, because I have way too much blessings to be complaining about what I have to do or didn’t do. Complain about the materials things that I want and don’t have. Memories like that one helps me to remain me that God is great, and we have to be thankful for all we have.  We MUST give others what we have share with others, not just give what is left. This is the best time of the year to do that. So try to think that is Christmas all year around!

P.S. Still I will not take a cold shower! J

 2 Corinthians 9:7-8

⁷ So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver. ⁸ And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work.

Big Hug,

MRM