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Friday!
Proverbs!
A person who is full loathes a honeycomb; but to the hungry, any bitter thing is sweet.
Mishlei (Pro) 27:7 CJB
This got me thinking about what I miss because I'm "full". 

What don't I "get" about another person's life because mine is so different?

And of all the things I take for granted as "normal". 

In 2002 we lived in a house with no running water to the shower. There's a bucket with a shower rose on the bottom connected to a pulley that was filled in the kitchen with warm water and carried back and connected up to the pulley and that was the shower. 
I wouldn't consider living with that in NZ. 
And yet at the same time, just 200 metres away, there was a whole community of people who had no tap in their house at all, and no warm water. 
In 2004 we lived in a house with a "proper" shower. 
I wonder, looking back, if I thought I deserved it. That somehow I was a "better" person becuase I didn't wash in the stream, or I deserved a proper shower not "just" a bucket shower...

What am I missing because I am "full"?
Does this proverb prompt me to be more protective? 
Or more generous?

To open my eyes anew to the world around me?

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