"Is the grass always greener to you?"

I recently talked with a mother of two preschool children and asked her how it was going. “Well,” she said, “my two-year-old has a stomach virus and is really pitiful right now.”

“I’m so sorry,” I said, “I remember what a trying time that can be.”

“Keeping his older sister away from him is part of the challenge” she told me. “I don’t want her to catch it,” she said.

“That’s a good idea,” I said. “All four of us had a horrific stomach virus once…and with only three bathrooms.”

“Well,” she said, “she wishes she had the stomach virus.”

“Why?” I asked.

“I tried to tell her she doesn’t want it,” the mother said, “but she says she wants it because then her little brother would have to stay away from her.”

The grass is always greener, isn’t it? Until you get over to the other side of the hill and discover the reality of living there.

Love the life you have and listen to it for God to guide you to where you can best make a life and not just a living.