May 31, 2012 - Mosquitos!

Good morning all, Wanna talk this morning about mosquitos. Does anybody like them other than frogs???? They bug the stuff out of me! They never give up, they don't care that you hate them and they are determined to bite you. Sometimes I feel like my own fleshly desires in relation to food are this way. I can go to certain restaurants and nothing bothers me, but the old favorites - all the mosquitos come! The waiters bring the bread and butter to the table (that I LOVE) and everyone is eating and laughing and there it comes - the mosquito to remind me of how I am "suffering." The waiter brings the appetizers and everyone grabs and laughs and I sit and smile - mosquitos. YEP!!! Food is so social for me and at the table with friends, with the "mosquitos swarming," I wanna start swatting. So on Tuesday, while sitting through this scenario and smiling while drinking my water and dealing with my mosquito attitude, I wanted to swat someone. I did all the right things though, smiled, sipped my water, confessed that food was not my boss - but every time that "mosquito" was "hovering" over the shrimp and peppers and drawing my attention - I finally had to move the plate away. Fried shrimp in the sauce at Longhorn with the peppers is one of my FAVORITE appetizers. I knew I couldn't eat it, and was just being kind to buy one for the table to share, BUT when I am tired, my flesh was attacked by those little "mosquitos" as everyone else was LOVING the appetizer. Then the questions started: How about just one? Is there really anything on there that can hurt you? These are small shrimp It's your favorite! But how many of you know, just that one little open door, FOR ME, could have started a pattern of making excuses. Then I got irritated - I didn't plan, didn't have any "snacks" with me, was eating late, purchased my favorite to bless others and be tormented - MOSQUITOS! The moral of the story - make a plan! Mosquitos will be with us forever, as irritating as they are, but they TOOOOO are not the boss of me! I got through the meal with no bread, butter, fried shrimp, croutons, or birthday cake. VICTORY DANCE. Choose life and eat to live - PK PS - And let's kill all mosquitos that want to provoke us to wrath and let's enjoy what everyone else is enjoying without partaking of what they partake. There is a HUGE difference. LOVE YOU!