A Broken Flapper and Scratched Cell Phone

By Jeremy White

God has a wonderful way of teaching us lessons in the simplest of ways. My wife and I drink a ton of water and use our Brita Filter more than anything else in our house. I was getting the filter out of the fridge a couple of weeks ago when the lid fell off, hit the floor and broke the flapper. This incident put me in a bad mood for several minutes. My wife knew I was frustrated and after some time asked if I was still upset that the flapper had broke, which I embarrassingly admitted that I was. I couldn’t believe how upset I got over a broken flapper and how I had to use two hands to pour my water instead of one now. There are people around the world that would love to have clean drinking water whenever they wanted and yet I get hung up on a broken flapper. Now when I pour water I am reminded about being grateful, which is lesson 1.

Lesson 2 was the new cell phone I recently got in, which I kept the protective plastic layer on. I can be hard on phones whether dropping or scratching them so thought I would try and leave it on as long as possible. I had the plastic film on the phone for several weeks until it started to unravel a bit, so I took it off. The next day I was moving some dead branches from my backyard through the side fence to the curb. I was squeezing through the fence with a large pile of branches when I heard a big scratch. Wondering what the sound was, I look and saw that I had rubbed my phone that was clipped to my belt across the brick of my house. This mistake caused a scratch the size of Texas on the front screen which I was not pleased with. I took my frustration out on the branches crunching a big pile into small sticks.

Unfortunately, the scratched cell phone put me in a bad mood all the way through dinner, but also made me realize how much I love the material things of this world. Now every time I look at my cell phone I see a big scratch, but am reminded to keep my eyes fixed on the eternal, which was lesson 2. What simple lessons is God trying to teach you right now and are you really learning them? I am amazed at how God can use things like a broken flapper and a scratched cell phone to teach me so much. May God give you a reminder today of what He wants you to learn.

Darin and Mandy's wedding

The White Family

This is the most recent family picture that Sabrina took when we went back to Ohio about a month ago. For those familiar with Burton, we are outside the log cabin in the square in good old downtown Burton.

My God is so Big

This is one of Graydon's favorite songs. He was a bit distracted by the camera so his reaction wasn't quite as big as it usually is.

Sabrina's Photography booth at our local Fall Festival. Pray that there would be some good contacts made.

Two bottom teeth have arrived just before I turned 7 months old!

Graydon with Aunt Chrissy
















Graydon's first taste of Fall up north in Ohio, where the leaves actually change colors unlike Texas:)

Graydon's baby dedication at our church. Frankie a close friend of the family came out from Las Cruces, NM for a visit.

Graydon supports our troops! Wearing his Grandpa and Great Grandpa White's Army dog tags.

This is a bit old but still cute

We've gotten behind in posting...

This is a recent picture of Jeremy and & Graydon from our trip to Ohio a couple weeks ago. The other picture of G-man in his car seat is just cute!