What a stupid question you say.

Everyone has problems.

OK then, how big are your problems?

As I sit here at the computer struggling with a completely new system that I'm being forced to learn and feeling so frustrated and inadequate as hours of my precious time go flying by. My head hurts and my right hand is hurting from carpal tunnel syndrome and I wonder why I'm having so many problems.

Then I check my mail and start reading the prayer requests that are coming in.

A lady from Indonesia doesn't want her father to run away with another women and it breaks her heart to see her mother in so much pain. A missionary on the Amazon in Brazil wants prayer for his wife who is having neck spasms and in terrible pain.
Then there's the elderly lady who's husband of more than sixty years has Alzheimer's and she worries about her own safety and the mom and Dad in Texas who are about to lose their six year old daughter to cancer.

OK, I can take a couple of aleve for my head ache and some P-K-5 for my carpal tunnel syndrome and although it may take some time, I will learn this new computer system.

Of course you have problems, but the next time you start feeling sorry for yourself, look around and thank God for your blessings. It works for me.

For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So fix your eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
2 Corinthians 5:17-18

By Vern Bourne

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