Do you have a D.R.A

My mum had many sayings that she used repeatedly and one of them was

 ‘Do you have a D.R.A?’ Dirty Rotten Attitude!!! I used to hate the question because more often or not she was right I did have a stinking attitude!

 Other questions, which I so wanted to avoid were “How’s your soul?” Or “What’s God teaching you right now?” I miss those questions now that I appreciate what they do! They make you revaluate your whole thought processes!!

I thought of attitude today and I thought ‘Gratitude helps towards positive attitudes’ you can’t have a D.R.A when your thanking God! I was slipping into one tonight feeling overwhelmed with my to do list and everyone wanting a piece of me, I was shooting up arrow prayers trying to be thankful and trying to let go of my list and then I thought of Mum again!! When mum was dying of a brain tumour we all took it in turns to nurse her it was the hardest thing I have physically and emotionally done but the biggest privilege! She decided like Abraham she wanted to give each of her daughters a blessing before she died of course as the youngest I was last and these are the words she gave me..

The daily round the common task

Furnishes all we need to ask

Room to deny ourselves the road that leads to God

I was sooooo disappointed in her blessing! deny myself what was all that about?

Now 13 years later I get it, I may not like it but I get it! I am a naturally selfish person I would much rather sit in the sun reading than be in doors preparing services, youth club or cleaning, I would rather have lazy days doing nothing than helping others, but that’s not what God intends for me or any of us!

It’s often in the daily common tasks that I can feel God trying to get through to me like washing up! I have many heated discussion with God with my hands in soapy dirty water!! One more mumism!! J.O.Y Jesus first Others next Yourself last!

So thanks mum I think!!

 

 

Carbohydrates and Protein feed the body

Words feed the soul!