You've just concluded a long day at work, and you're ready to go home and immediately work out, take out the trash, unload the dishwasher, cook a healthy two course dinner, and go to bed at 8:30 pm. Or get pizza, do absolutely nothing, and watch netflix until 2 am. The latter usually wins for most people. Anyways, so you get home and then SURPRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISE!!!!! Things pop out of your furniture and coat closet, yelling and throwing confetti on your recently (?) vacuumed carpet.
How do you deal with it? You could put on a smile and say the courtesies such as "Oh you shouldn't have! I had no idea!", but what you're really thinking is, of course, no you really, really, really should NOT have done this. That's option A.
Option B is to stare blankly at the procession in your house, and then say "I'm sorry, I must have the wrong address", run, don't walk, to your car, and drive far, far away.
There is Option C where you are actually excited about the surprise party, but I don't trust these people.
Now that we've go the scenario in our head, let's talk.
Life does this right? It just throws this big, unwanted surprise party, and you're stuck with red solo cups cluttering your counters and confetti stuck in your carpet. So what do you do? Regardless of which option you go with, you will be stuck with a big mess to clean up at some point.
My advice is to put on some rubber gloves and get Bar Keeper's Friend (you weirdos who use Comet, there it is). Your house probably needed to be cleaned anyways.
I had some undesired confetti squished into my carpet. Now it's time to get out my vacuum and get those suckers out. It's called the renewal of the mind.
It's time to refocus my life on what's important. God comes first. It's so easy to put God on the back burner. But I find when I do that, my life goes a little awol. It's time to dig deeper, and really fall in love with my God again.
The second thing that needs to fall back into place is my fitness. The job I have now is physically demanding, and I have used that as an excuse to allow myself to slack off on my workouts. That's not okay. Taking care of my body should be such a huge priority; the Bible even says so:
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 "Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God. You are not your own; you were bought with a price. Therefore, honor God with your bodies."
Talk about a wake up call. I am not my own. This body was bought with a price, and I need to take care of it. I need to keep it in prime condition. All of us should, and not just by working out, but by what we put in our bodies. We should be feeding it good stuff, not junk.
I take life one day at a time. These two priorities will keep me busy for a while. It's a lifestyle change. Making time for that one on one time with Jesus, as well as spending an hour a day improving my health.
So I guess surprise parties aren't all bad... it can be a good turning point. But really, if you're going to throw me a surprise party, tell me about it at least two days in advance. Please and thank you :)
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