Quick perspective

The last few weeks have not really gone according to plan, well my plan, that is.  Every time Michael and I set out to spend some time together (outside of sitting on the couch watching T.V. "together") something comes up.  He is leaving at 5am tomorrow for a week.  I obviously was not pleased about this since he just got back from being deployed and has been in class for the last two weekends.  So we decided to go on a date tonight, nice dinner a movie, the whole bit.  After showering and spending 30 min drying my 20 pounds of hair, he informs me that he is not feeling well enough to do anything.  He started to not feel great last night and was trying to kick it all morning.  In true frustrated, over-emotional wife fashion I kind of threw a fit.  I felt bad that he is not feeling good so I don't want to force him to take me out when he just wants to be in bed, but I was actually really mad at the situation in general.  We decided to just go to dinner and rent a movie (still not a bad gig), but I was having a hard time pulling myself out of my selfish stupor.  So while I sat pouting, I came across a blog of a girl I went to college with who just wrote about her sister who just passed away last week.  I did not know this girl very well, but it still struck me, it is always hard to hear of someone so young, who has kids, passing away.  I can't imagine how painful that would be, and as a Christian I am supposed to be able to handle a situation like that much differently than a non- Christian.  I sat and thought about how this girl was dealing with this loss, she was praising the Lord that people came to know Christ from her SISTER'S FUNERAL.  

And here I am, perfectly healthy with an amazingly loving husband, with a family (and family-in-law) who love me very much and I'm sitting on the couch pouting about not getting my silly way for one night.  I appreciate and welcome perspective every chance I get, and thank the Lord that I am not (always) too blinded by selfishness to see it.