Okay so I fell off the blogging wagon, AGAIN. Here it is 2014, and I have written very little since September 2013 with the titled piece, "Ain't Nobody Got Time for That." I guess I didn't have time or take time to continue writing, sharing my opinion on a variety of topics. Yes, I have been busy. But today I want to share a thought that keeps entering my mind. It is simply called, "Spoiled Rotten." I just celebrated my 60th birthday....so this is the perfect time for me to fess up about being spoiled.
I have been called "spoiled." Spoiled as a child and spoiled as an adult. I try to spoil myself so that I have no need for others to really spoil me....but they do anyway. Spare the rod and spoil the child??? Yes, we have all heard that. And read that in scripture. But just what does it mean to be Spoiled Rotten? It has to be - simply a figure of speech. I am spoiled but not rotten....And who exactly spoils me? My brothers would say my dad did. My father might have felt my mother did. I know my children do spoil me. And friends spoil me. Loving past relationships have spoiled me. But the one that really spoils me is God. The Holy Spirit talks to me when I need a listener and when I need to listen. God answers my prayers constantly. I am not suffering and even when the funds are low and the bills are piling high, God makes a way out of no way. I am spoiled but not spoiled rotten......I think I am spoiled right. As long as my prayers continue to get answered and my children and grandchildren, family, friends, and significant others spoil me.....I'll just keep doing what I think is right....and it is very unlikely I will ever be rotten.
Spare the rod and spoil the child? This is not a corporal punishment debate. All children need guidance, direction, rules, and discipline. I am spoiled...yes but not spoiled rotten.....just spoiled right. And thanking God for the spoiling He does and the Love He gives. And yes I was definitely spoiled this year with all birthday celebrations.
