No Problem......

We have a big family night coming up this weekend with our church and we are doing it at the park here in town.  It started off just to be the youth group at the church...and as thing do it's gotten big, and it's now a family night at the park.  And it's going to be great!!

This morning working with some of the others that are helping put it on...Paper good came up and what was still needed.  Unsure how to answer the sweet lady that was willing to help us.  I message someone that would know.  He answered back that he had pick up plates and we had napkins at the church.  I thank him for picking them up....and I get back No Problem....

I'm not sure what it was, maybe it was feeling like I was being a pest, but it just got to me in the wrong way and answer back in a somewhat smarty pants not so nice way.  And was a little upset....still sitting at the computer a few minutes later and Jessalla's Sunday School teacher message me asking when she was going to camp.  I gave her the days and she wrote back THANKS!! :)  And without thinking No Problem was coming out of my hands and was sent before I knew it...

I went back and said I was sorry for the way I had acted before.

I get why we say it...because for us it was not a big deal...But on the or hand for the person that was saying thank you it was a big deal...it's not something they do not have to do or ask someone else to do. Or info that they do not have to look for.  And for me it's so easy to think well to pick up the plates was not a big deal I do not have to thank him for that, this time....then it's something else, and so on and so on....And I become a very unthankful person and think well it's not a big deal so and so can do it.  And all the so and so may end up feeling used. I know I have felt that way, after doing things for others that were not a big deal.  But what a great reminder all from paper plates.

I think Thank you is something that is not said enough!  And is something that we work on hard in this house.  To tell and show people how thankful we are for them.  It's one lesson that we will keep working on even if I think the kids got it.  It's something that we can fall out of so easy, don't fall out of being Thankful and telling people thank you.

 This service that you perform is not only supplying the needs of the Lord’s people but is also overflowing in many expressions of thanks to God.

2 Corinthians 9:12