God’s Heart Crashes My Pity Party

Okay, confession time! One of my biggest struggles is discontentment. I find it difficult to go to other people’s homes because I always come home feeling bad about my own. In truth, I love my house. It’s got character, it’s got space, it’s got a nice layout and it has a MASSIVE backyard. I know it’s a great house. It’s more my own care of the house that gets to me. I need to de-clutter, clean, paint, decorate, organize and so on. And yet, the very idea of accomplishing these tasks overwhelms me. These things really weigh down on me sometimes.

I was really struggling with this recently. I was feeling down about myself the entire day. I kept praying for contentment. I kept trying to “choose” contentment. But, inside my heart I was sinking into a pity party.

That’s when God showed up. He wasn’t an uninvited guest, and yet I was surprised to see Him arrive. I didn’t think God usually came to pity parties.

You might find this silly… I think maybe God does silly sometimes–after all He invented silly, right? But it made me smile and then laugh. Then I had to run get my camera.

In moments when I’m fretting about the cleanliness of my home, I’m going to look back on this picture and laugh. And I will remember that in the midst of a pity party — God has a way of making His heart known, even when you aren’t looking for it.

In case you can’t tell, this is a picture of my bathroom faucet as it looked when I went to brush my teeth.