Reflecting over the days events, I have had a great day. Started the day with a quick shower, slept too late and lingered in bed too long. I did make it to work on time, barely. Life in an elementary library is good even though the end of school is always very hectic with inventories, closing up the library and getting all textbooks back in and ready for another school year. Seems like the years fly by as I watch another group of 5th graders leave our little school for middle school next year.
After school, I had a strong cup of coffee with a peanut butter sandwich then watered my flowers and started some laundry. Light supper, phone conversations, hubby came home and then off to the movies with friends, these were all a part of my day. Now as I think about today's Bible reading, Proverbs chapter 30, I ask myself, "What does it mean for me today?" There is so much in this chapter but tonight two things stand out for me, vanity and lies. Verses 8 and 9 say,
"Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty or riches; feed me with food convenient for me: lest I be full, and deny thee and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Many of us live our days without thinking about the vanity that slowly creeps over us at work or into our private lives - where deep down we want to be center stage, always on top looking the best, put together and ready to lead. Interesting how lies follow vanity! Could it be that trying to be center stage in life is the lie that we buy into without even knowing?
