Humble pie.

Humble pie. Every had some? It's bitter. And sweet. 

Sometimes we walk around like we own the place. Our confidence is pretty high, we're feeling pretty good. And BOOM. We are knocked off our high horse and reminded of how human we really are.

Ouch - it hurts. Sometimes physically, but mostly it hurts our pride.  And sometimes it can even break your heart.

This morning I was taking cards out to the mailbox. The sprinklers had been left on. And the temp this morning was a whopping 14 degrees. So the sidewalk was ice.

Yep. I fell. Flat on my back. Luckily with no one around... but thank goodness I didn't pass out or was seriously hurt, because I would have laid there alone for who knows how long.

I got up and picked up all the mail that went flying - and granny walked to the mailbox and back- through the crispy frozen grass :)

I'm a little sore. But I'm alive and well.

I believe things like this happen to the best of us - physically falling as well as stumbling and making mistakes.  Finding out things that take your breath away.  Hearing gossip about another - or about yourself- true or not.

These things happen- not because God doesn't care. He DOES care - even about my dumb little fall.

He cares about our mistakes and our shortcomings and our guilt and our shame and He cares when we are mistreated. But most of all- He cares about our hearts.

Our response to these hits are what really matters. 

Choose to be humble? Choose to grow?  Choose to check our hearts and change for the better?  Become a little more like our Daddy God?

Or not. It's a choice.

And I believe He allows things - people even- to be present in our life to keep us on our toes and on our knees.

To keep us humble. 

To keep us dependent.

I believe that God DOES give us more than we can handle.  So that we are unable to do this thing called life on our own.  To make us realize we are really and truly in need of a Saviour.

So I'm just gonna keep on eating my humble pie.

Because if it keeps me close to Him and makes me look a little more like Him- it's worth it. 

Much love friends,
Christa