Just Thinking...

When I was outside working, the manure spreading job was completed before noon by the way, I was thinking about if I died today, what sort of things would I have to answer to God about.

Life is so full of choices, small things and big things. I have been asking Emery quite a bit lately for a new floor in our living room. Almost hounding him, reminding him of how this floor was just a quick fix and how it would be nice to have something that didn't show the dust quite as much.

The stained plywood has served us well, we didn't have money for any kind of floor covering when we built on I just came up with the idea of staining the plywood as a temporary fix until we had the money to put some sort of floor covering down. Well, that was back in 1995...so much for temporary ! We have had the funds to put something else down, but we keep changing our minds and thinking about the cost and how the floor serves us well and then today, when I was dreaming of a new floor and thinking that $1,000 is not that much, the thought came to me, at the pearly gates might God be so bold as to ask me, "Patty was the new floor more important than food for that family you know that has next to nothing and medicine for that elderly neighbor of yours that can't afford to buy it for herself ?" Ouch !

You see, loving my neighbor as myself, might just mean the new floor doesn't matter in the end compared to the greater needs of those around us. And when I am dead and gone, I sure don't want people to remember me for how my floor looked or how my house was decorated or what I cooked or how I set the table....I want it to be for something that matches my desire to serve God.