"People only see what is visible, measurable. God sees into the heart. He not only forgives our failures, He sees successes where no one else does - not even ourselves. Only God can give us credit for the angry words we did not speak, the temptations we resisted, the patience and gentleness little noticed and long forgotten by those around us. Just being human gives us value in His eyes, and trying to live with integrity makes us successful before Him. God redeems us from the sense and fear of failure because He sees us as no human eyes can see us. Some religions teach that God sees so clearly that He knows all our shameful thoughts and nasty secrets. I prefer to believe that God sees us so clearly that He knows better than anyone else our wounds and sorrows, the scars on our hearts from having wanted to do more and do better, and being told by the world that we never would." ~Rabbi Harold Kushner

25 April 2010

On a Saturday night...

I'm home.

Watching a movie...a good movie at that.

Enjoying my very clean and rearranged apartment.

And feeling kind of sad about the fact that I bought a Swiffer Wet Jet today.

Let me start by saying that I am NOT AT ALL disappointed in my purchase...on the contrary I'm in love with it. If I had owned a mop to begin with it would be in the garbage can right now pinning away for me. As it were, I clean my floor on my hands and knees with a towel. But not anymore thanks to my new Wet Jet!

The sad part about the Wet Jet (ok...can we all just stop for a moment and have a hearty laugh about the name of this product...ok done) is that I bought one for myself. I buy many things for myself...I go to so many showers and at almost every one, a Swiffer Wet Jet is given as a gift. It has become the bane of my single existence. A painful reminder that I will not have a bridal shower, or a baby shower...that all those fun gifts you get (and the not so fun ones that you get to return) will not be gifts, but things that I buy one at a time and enjoy, perhaps even more than if they were gifts...but still...it would be nice to have a shower.
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