Attitudes are dumb!

okay so here's the deal for the last week or so i have been just totally busy with school that it has caused me to become stressed, cranky, irrated to the ones i love, a homebody who never sees anyone, and quite bitter at the things that have been going on. Don't ask me why but thats what stress seems to do...so much so that i have been missing all the wonderful things God has been doing in my life this last 2 weeks it tends to happen alot. So i sat today and i finally got to think about my attitude and how i've been handling things this week and i started seeing these blessings that i hadn't seen because of my attitude...For example, So i hit a car about two weeks back...so mad because it was my first accident i guess you could call it but even madder because i had to miss class and it was just such an inconvience in my great little life that now that i think about it i totally missed the hidden blessing...see our nieghbor who has been asking about FRC happened to get home the exact time i hit the lady's car and so we got to use that time to talk to her and invite her to church. Another example, I have been highly bitter about my groups class that i so love...i complain about it every second of the day and wasn't looking forward to the meeting i had on sunday since my group can never agree on anything! i happen to be early (which is a first people!) and the one group memeber that i highly dislike is indian and very into her beliefs...got there early too! i didn't know i was looking at bibles b.c i wanted a new one (to add to the million i already have lol) and she called so i got the chance to show her the bible and talk about passion to her and share my Jesus to her another blessing. So many times i do this i get wrapped up in myself and in my issues that i forget that God is using those things in our lives...to bless other people or to bless us. I have just started reading the book of Ruth...and last night i was reading and realized Naomi's reaction to her husband and sons death...that God had his hand against her and whoa is her....at first i got angry and i was like what a complainer! God doesn't do things on purpose to hurt us...he puts things in place for a reason and most of time that reason is to fulfill some kind of plan and usually its the plan he had all along for us! But as i thought that i was like DUH KRISTY! you act like this all the time you complain ah i hate this why does this have to happen God whats your problem but all along i'm missing out on the blessing you have for me! So next time you have a bad attitude rem. that God isn't trying to inconvience our lives but fulfill the plan he has for you so be thankful! =)