Only Ninety-nine dollars? Well of course I needed that fire engine red Cuisinart stand mixer with the 500 watt motor. I had a ten dollar stand mixer. however it couldn't be used for a long time and couldn't do any heavy duty mixing. I'd left my Kitchen Aid mixer in Seattle when I came to Philadelphia. I did my research on whether or not this Cuisinart could do compared to my Kitchen Aid mixer. It passed muster with the reviewers.
Driving out to the store I was excited to be able to get this mixer at a great sales price. I picked up a few items as I made my way to the appliances. When I got there I looked and looked and couldn't see the mixer. I went back and forth up and down the aisle. Could they have put it in another place? There was a Kitchen Aid mixer for three times the price I was willing to pay, but no Cuisinart mixers. Perhaps they sold out of them. I went to my phone. I looked at the ad again . It said that one could purchase the mixer in the store or online. I thought, "Well it sure isn't in this store."
I went to Customer Service to ask about the mixer. Alas the line was way too long and I had a another appointment. I decided I'll call back or order it online. I don't have time to wait.
When I finally got home from my appointment I went online to go to the website. As I clicked on my email to the site I saw something I hadn't seen before. The store advertising the mixer wasn't Sam's club. It was B.J.'s, another big box store on the East Coast. Then it all made sense. I was looking in the wrong store. My frustration as to why there were no more mixers wasn't the store's fault. It was my thinking that the store had something they weren't selling.
Isn't this what is frustrating some us in life? Like the old song says, ".. looking for love in all the wrong places." If I need peace and calm I am not going to find it at the bottom of a bottler of vodka. If I need comfort, eating a dozen donuts may taste good, but they will not wrap themselves around me to comfort me. However if food is the go to for relief it will wrap itself around me in other ways. I am personally finding another way for thwarting the effects of a number of life's ills. I am looking to the Word of God.
Don't knock it if you have never tried to do this.
When I need comfort in the time of my grief. I turn to Psalm 23. The words, The Lord is my Shepherd brings calm to my soul. When I need reassurance that God is protecting me I turn to Psalm 91. This tells me that even in the most harrowing of circumstances God is protecting me. Now of course you don't have to believe me. I must ask, do you really want to be like I was, walking up and down the aisles of the wrong store looking for a fire engine red mixer mixer that's not there? If so, carry on. If not, start looking in the right place.
