It was a regular evening and we were having supper with the family. When we were done, I took out the leftover cake we had from a family gathering earlier that week. I cut up some pieces and handed them out. And that's when the troubles began.

Your piece is bigger than mine! It's not fair!!!

Countered by:

Yea, but you ALWAYS get bigger pieces than me and that's not fair!

As you can imagine, this quickly turned into an argument between our children. Voices were raising, tears started flowing and the situation was quickly escalating.

(My husband - God bless him - patiently listened to all sides and eventually made peace. I love this man so much)

Did I mention that there was cake?

Ah, yes. Right. There was cake! Delicious, tasty cake.

But no one could enjoy the cake because they were too busy getting upset about fairness.

And for what exactly? For the tiniest sliver of non existent cake!

I try to cut evenly, I'm sure we all do. We try to avoid this type of bickering. But one piece was indeed, several millimeters larger than the other! Technically, it wasn't fair. I guess... 🤦‍♀️

Think about it. You have a delicious piece of cake in front of you and you can't enjoy it because you're looking at the piece of cake that's in front of someone else. That's absolutely insane!

It got me thinking. How many times do we jump on the jealousy wagon? How easy is it to be jealous of each other, of men in general or our men in particular, of this, that or the other that we deem to be unfair.

Stop it!

Stop and appreciate the delicious blessings that are on your plate! Don't lose what you have because you were jealous.

Jealousy is for losers and jealousy will turn you into a loser. There is nothing to gain and everything to lose, by being jealous.

I know I know. It can be difficult in practice. That's why I like to remind myself of the childish - simple - example. It helps me steer away from jealousy, when I start feeling it.