PRIORITY

This morning is quite a hilarious morning to me. Here in Dallas the entire city is shut down. Last night ARCTIC BLAST 2009 swept through and put a thin sheen of reflection on roughly 6 million lives. We awoke in our house at 4:03am today. First it was Ella getting up to simply tell us that she loves us (how sweet…or creepy sleepwalker). Then it was Natalie at 4:09am letting us know she was thirsty and needed to go potty. Then Laura and I realized that it was a tad bit frigid in a house with the warmth setting 25 degrees below 100 (you are doing the math right now…I know). At 4:19am I was standing in our hallway re-setting the thermostat. After much tinkering and mimicing the HVAC guy…my knock off attempts were not working. At 4:24am I crawled back in bed and declared that it was in fact broken. At this point we are hunkered down in our bed with enough blankets to cover half of a small country. 4:45am I am on the phone with the HVAC experts and will get to see them somewhere between the hours of 12pm-4pm. Maybe the cable guy can come too and we can have a little party in our living room.

Now with the weather that we had last night our girls school was closed today. No higher education for my little ones today…today they will stay home and lose a little smart because of the ARTIC BLAST 2009. Here was our dilema. My wife…works full time and is on call this week. I…am attending a conference this week and today is day two of what I have deemed HAVING A BLAST 2009. Enter now the issue: Who is going to stay home and watch the aforementioned girls above? Immediately I pulled the spiritual leader card of responsibility and told my wife that my conference was not nearly as important as her actually working hard for the money…she works hard for the money…(cue cheesy 80′s soundtrack here). With that I returned to the frozen tundra called living room and checked the weather online and she made her way to the shower. 10 min. later she emerges sopping wet and complaining she is cold. My reply…dry off and put on some cloths…duh!!! She gives me the look of death and says…”I have made up my mind…I am staying home, you need to go to your conference. Go get ready.” I managed to put up a pretty good litigation, but this morning she prevailed. THEN IT HAPPENED: She goes to call in to work as I am in the shower. On her end I see her pick up a bucket of nails and begin to eat them for breakfast. Steam emerges from her ears and she turns a devilish red. Apparently my case just took an interesting turn. They did not have enough staff at work due to…did I mention…ARTIC BLAST 2009. As I watch this unfold from behind the shower glass I secretly am thinking to myself that “I WIN”!!!! She is frustrated…I am VICTORIOUS!!!

What has interested me about this whole morning is that we were both trying to make Priority what we both felt our Priority was. You may be asking well…what is that? Today we were both seeing that the other was the priority not ourselves. That our girls were a priority not ourselves. Today we became selfless and started to really ask ourselves what our true Priority was. For once it was not about me. Did I want to go to that conference…? Without a doubt. However, pleasing my wife was more important to me than any conference will ever be. Did she want to stay home and hang with the girls and allow me to go and do that…? Absolutly!!! However, her making me a priority made me want to serve her even more.

So the point is this. When we realize that God has made us the PRIORITY of His day it makes us want to make him our PRIORITY and serve him more. Today I ask you…what is your priority?