Thanks a million – NOT!

Don’ you just hate it when you get real excited about some accomplishment that you have achieved only to have someone belittle it, or worse laugh at you. It is kind of like popping a balloon with a sharp needle, isn’t it?

While on vacation I have lost four pounds. In order to achieve that lofty goal I have religiously worked out every morning at the crack of dawn. I lift weights for 45 minutes and then run like the wind with reckless abandon on the tread mill for another 45 minutes. I am now making it three miles per day on the tread mill and I cover at least that many more miles in just walking around the resort enjoying the scenery.

Hey I’m pretty proud of my accomplishment, but when I shared it with my wife she sarcastically told me that she wasn’t surprised. In fact she figured I should have lost 20 lbs the way that I had been walking around like a beagle with my tongue hanging out mile after mile in the hot sun scouring our resort and every adjoining resort checking out the bikini clad lovelies that abound.

Hmmm My wife can throw ice water on the fire but she cannot extinguish it. The important thing is that I set a goal to lose weight and I have done it. I porked up, and now I am porking down.

On the subject of all of the beauties on the beaches and around the pool, my sentiment is that God created all this beauty and I am certainly not going to ignore it. I’m making it my personal goal while on Maui to admire God’s creations to the fullest and if it helps me lose weight, hey that is just an added benefit. Her petty jealousies do not deter me one iota from my accomplishment and I will celebrate on my own tonight by treating myself to a banana split.

Good thing that I am strong willed and have a thick hide. I could have gone into seclusion over her petty cruel remarks. What I have learned, (often the hard way), is that some folks are not tough. They are often a little insecure and whenever someone pokes some fun at them like my wife did, they take it to heart and melt like a piece of cheese on a hamburger.

I am too often guilty of poking fun at others and often it hurts those on the receiving end. Not everyone has a thick hide like me and I need to learn that lesson. I generally know who is not receptive to jokes made at their expense. When I go ahead and do it anyway, it is because I did not think it through. In other words I am hasty with my remarks. It has got me in trouble more times than I care to enumerate and I suppose according to the Bible qualifies me as a fool.

I hope my wife reads this and then apologizes for her insensitivity, but I am not holding my breath. I will pray for her…

Proverbs 29:20
Do you see a man hasty in his
words?
There is more hope for a fool
than for him.