Humility

Ever have something happen and you know that God sent it along to make you realize that you are still very human.

It happened to me last week. Now I had been teaching a class and we wrapped up the last one of five and I was on a “teaching “ high. It had gone well, and I was feeling “gooood”. Never mind the fact that I had every week told God to please teach the class, simply use me but speak through me. It is amazing to be able to teach like that.

But here I was after the class and I got feeling so “proud” of my group. First mistake- if you ask God to teach, do not take credit for any teaching.

Second I had taught on "Hearing the Voice of God", big subject and guess who teaches it better…. me or God who designed the system?

So here I am Sunday morning and I get outside and the sun is shining and it is warm after another week of freeze. It really had warmed up, for me it is like a signal to “go grab a tank of water for the house.”

Where I live almost all of us go and get water from town for our houses. Sounds weird if you have never had to do it, but it is a “thing” here. You try to avoid fighting with hauling water in the freezing cold. Valves freeze, water freezes, you freeze…A whole lot of freezing.

So I get up early and my trusty dog Mila and I rush to town to get a load of water and diesel (my generator). I get home and get the water off, you can not leave water in the tank or it will freeze and you will not be able to get it out til like spring or summer.

I rush in the house grab a change of clothes out of the "clean" pile and head to church. I will be a bit late but I am going anyways.

Just as I pull out of my driveway I feel it. A large, bulge of something on the outside of my thigh area of my pants. I reach down and feel and realize I either have a balled up sock or underwear stuck inside my pants. Sigh…… please let it be a sock. It’s a fairly noticeable bump through the pants.

Thankful I wore the tight boots so nothing would fall out onto the floor as I walked, I figure I had this. Never mind about the 3” bulge sticking out and looking like an abnormal growth, I had a long coat, tight boots. I rushed into church but instead of heading right to the bathroom I noticed they were starting to hand out communion. I took my coat off, and rushed in to find a chair. It was when I sat down that I again felt the buldge, still there, still uncomfortable and still a foreign item. Still had not taken it out.

I sat for almost 45 minutes before I felt I could sneak out and go pull the offending item out.

Happy to announce it was a sock. The thing is, had it been underwear then the questions change don’t they??? Did it get trapped in the pants on the way into laundry… dirty. Or did they happen to float their way in thoroughly clean in the dryer. Well I did not have to answer those questions now much to my relief.

As I stood there in the bathroom holding the offending sock I realized how human I am. I felt God grin as His way of letting me remember my humble human roots, totally human.

I giggled and thought- oh I could so write a blog about this!