Anyone figure out how to be unselfish?

Today is my day my day off. Which means in my mind, I would spend it sleeping in, watching tv, playing frisbee golf, and over all disconnecting from my job, my life, and my community.

I woke up today with my beautiful wife screaming about a moth...She doesn't have the day off and has to get up about 5:30 to get to work on time. Between her fear of the moth, turning on the light, and rushing around to get to work on time, my beautiful sleeping in moment had been shattered. (That isn't to say that I didn't go back to sleep, but i was amazed at how resentment crept up on me as I slept)

The night before, Ashley wanted to look at paint colors for our new apartment, which is never my idea of a good time, but we decided to look at them so that we can begin painting. Ashley has done a great job figuring things out and basically just needed my feedback.

Anyways the point is that I woke up on the wrong side of the bed feeling very "hard done by" as my mom would say.

I spent the day, mostly cleaning and making dinner. Its amazing what God can do with a little time to yourselfe. I realized that Ashley had made dinner and cleaned the dishes the past two days. Although i was thankful, I didn't remember how much work that probably took, considering that I spent 3-4 hours on it.

I also remembered how wonderful she had be to me afer a long day yesterday, and how I rewarded her with complaining (at least in my body language) about looking at paint.

Ashley takes the care to work on wednesdays which means I have to hoof it to get to a computer or anywhere else. As I walked the 5 block (my goodness!) to my work, I fed my selfish side all kinds of complaints. Until of course, I saw 3 kids from my basketball team, ran into an 8 year old who was convinced that he needed to get a job, saw an 18 year old from our high school basketball team taking care of his 2 year old nephew.

Anyone figure out how to be unselfish?? I have had an incredible day, not because I got to sleep in, watch tv, and disconnect from my job and my community. But the exact opposite. I'm glad God knows what i need on my day off. And I still might be able to by frisbee golf tonight!