Lesson Three - Warm-up

Imagine for a moment that you have worked hard for several years to save enough money to buy a car and that a close friend's parents simply hand him money for a new car.

• How do you feel toward your friend? How do you feel about your own circumstances?
• How do you think you should feel?

S0 - right off the bat, I'm jealous - and a little bitter. And I'm a little angry about my own circumstances, because why should I have to work for something when someone else doesn't. It just isn't "fair". To which my mother has always said "Life isn't fair... anyone who tells you different is selling something."

And the thing is, Life isn't fair - but that doesn't mean that I have to care about it. I should just be grateful that life IS... I have so much and I'm so blessed in other ways. Just because my friend got a car handed to them and I had to work for mine... what have I had handed to me instead? I should focus on my own gifts instead of coveting someone else's gifts.... which of course is easier said than done.