Appreciate the unappreciated
It was 4am on Sunday and I had been asleep for about 4 hours after a wonderful evening we had shared with another couple out for dinner. We both were sharing a wedding anniversary. They, 23; us, 3. It was a great evening. The night before I had just spent cleaning up puke from all over the house that the two youngest had left for me in the middle of our movie night. Rubbing backs and wiping chins and then there I was hunched over the toilet puking my brains out with no one to do the same. It was a very lonely moment.
I figure that sometimes as wives, moms, heck, just as women, we look to others for praise when we've done something nice for someone and then get upset when you didn't get the accolades in return. We want to be cared and caressed the same as we give out so freely when we are down for the count. Sometimes it's very easy to feel unappreciated. Sometimes the unappreciated can be your own lack of appreciation for yourself though.
It was 4am on Sunday and I had been asleep for about 4 hours after a wonderful evening we had shared with another couple out for dinner. We both were sharing a wedding anniversary. They, 23; us, 3. It was a great evening. The night before I had just spent cleaning up puke from all over the house that the two youngest had left for me in the middle of our movie night. Rubbing backs and wiping chins and then there I was hunched over the toilet puking my brains out with no one to do the same. It was a very lonely moment.
I figure that sometimes as wives, moms, heck, just as women, we look to others for praise when we've done something nice for someone and then get upset when you didn't get the accolades in return. We want to be cared and caressed the same as we give out so freely when we are down for the count. Sometimes it's very easy to feel unappreciated. Sometimes the unappreciated can be your own lack of appreciation for yourself though.
"The feeling of being unappreciated is a failure to appreciate others" - unknown
The 5 year old Rat came in that night though as I was aching and moaning and groaning from the aches and she started to cry and said, "mommy, I don't want you to be sick" And then she grabbed my hands and said she wanted to say a prayer for me. Her delicate little fingers in my feverish hands. Her sweet voice asking God to heal me and make me better. Appreciated.
Sometimes appreciating the unappreciated can be as simple as having cable, or change in your cup holder to have just enough for lunch or sometimes it can be having a wife who gets the kids off to school despite having the stomach flu or a husband who works hard despite the negativity slung daily and still comes home with a smile on his face. Rather than looking to others first, we need to just stop and pat ourselves on the back for making it and give the praise to God who appreciates us in ways beyond our understanding.
"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son..." (JOHN 3:16)
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