Speck in the eye!

Hello! Wanted to share a quick clip of today.  I woke up this morning and since the coffee pot was fried (for a second time) due to an electrical problem in our house... I struggled in patience for the water to boil so we could pour hot water through the coffee pot filter in our non working coffee pot.  (a homemade french press)  I looked around and the 'mess' in my house was creating an anxiety.. or maybe it was the broken coffee pot? Or, maybe it was my lack of patience, the very sin within me?

I decided to go to the store and get my groceries. A car ride to the store without 5 kids is like a vacation. I knew that I needed to seek the Lord because my attitude was not going in a good direction.  I get in our jeep, put on 'devotionals on CD' that a friend graciously bought me.  The speaker spoke on how we KNOW God is there when things are fine and dandy, but do we tell God we know He is there when "the coffee pot breaks again" or "the house is disastrous ?"  Driving along, I unroll the window because it was a low of 76 and I wanted that cool air! (yes, 76 is cool once you live through 100+ and no AC).  Driving along considering what the speaker is saying, something flew in my eye.  I rub it.  Wrong thing to do. Pain. More Pain.  Can't see.  Every time my lid would close, it felt like my cornea was getting scratched. Still driving in the D.R. Lots of traffic.  Motos flying by.  Still Pain, still not able to see out of the left eye except somewhat out of a watering right eye.  I decide to pull off because I thought I would wreck ( good thing we bought the insurance that lets you go to a hotel instead of jail until authorities figure out what happens if there is an accident).  Call Josh.  Remember that the new PA on staff is on his way to the same store.  I able able to drive to meet him there.  In the store he everts my eyelid (of course customers were all around!) and using a Qtip removes a speck! Yes, smaller than a grain of sand.  The first time my eye lid shut after the removal...NO pain. It felt like such relief.

I asked Josh since I got the speck out of my own eye, can I share a few things with him now? (and he thought I was making a joke..)

Seriously, I pondered that speck.  That teeny tiny thing caused so much pain and discomfort.  It potentially could of caused an accident.  In Matthew 7, we are told that we have to remove a PLANK in our own eye before we pay attention to the 'speck of sawdust' in our brother's eye.  Wonder how much damage a plank would do over time? I am guessing a lot.

"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?  Matthew 7:3