Good Morning Girls!  The definition of eating crow is this: humiliation by admitting wrongness or having been proven wrong after taking a strong position.  Why am I giving you the definition of eating crow?    I thought I would give you the definition of what I had for lunch yesterday.  Yes, I had myself a little crow for lunch yesterday.  Trust me, it was not tasty.  It tasted like a kick in the gut, followed by a strong desire to put my tail between my legs and walk away in shame.  Praise the Lord!  God is so good.  He was the only one aware of my lunch.  We had ourselves a private lunch for two.......just the Holy Spirit and I.   But I did laugh right away.....knowing I would be sharing it with you all this morning!
So what did I do this time you are wondering?  Remember a week or two ago when I talked about the trainer at the Y who looked all put out early one morning and when I smiled and told her things would get better, her response was "Tomorrow it will be better."?  Remember how I was all up in arms at how she could decide at 9am that she was going to have a crummy day?  Well I saw her yesterday at the Y and she said hi and smiled and I said "It's so nice to see you smiling again".  She stopped at the bike I was riding and said.  "Oh, I have had a tough couple of months. Your dad's death started it, and I just attended the 4th funeral last week.  I thought it was only supposed to go in three's, but I lost four friends in 6 weeks!"  My mind flashed back to the day she seemed so upset, and I knew that was one of the days she either just learned of her friends death, or attended a funeral.  I immediately felt like a judgmental jerk.  The good news was, I immediately knew what I was going to write about today!  She went on to share with me how watching her friends die so suddenly has really got her thinking about her life, and death.  She is the same age as the four who had just passed away.  She is healthy and strong, but so were the other four.  We ended up having a really nice talk. 
I still stand by my previous blog in that we cannot let our day be determined by 9am.  We need to do all we can to purpose to make the most of each day.  However, the real lesson I learned here is that we are not to judge someone else by their attitude.........for we never really know what is happening in their world.  I am thankful that I have at least learned to keep my mouth shut while I secretly "judge" someone else's behavior (okay....in most cases anyway), and she is unaware of how thoughtless and judgmental I was.  However, the one true Judge knows.....and I thank Him for his grace, which has taught me this lesson in a gentle way.  It could have been so much worse.  I could have had to eat my crow lunch for a crowd of witnesses, but the Lord saved me from myself........again.

Matthew 7:1-2 "Do not judge others, and you will not be judged.  For you will be treated as you treat others.  The standard you use in judging is the standard by which you will be judged."


Love, joy, and thanks to you all-
Jen