Taking for Granted the Things so Easy to Forget

I just got out of a hot shower, in my nice pink bathroom, pink zebra stripe shower curtain and all. Of course, if you know me well enough every thing has to be pink and thats exactly how my bathroom is.  I was thinking though during my hot, enjoyable shower.  We so often take for granted the idea of a daily, hot shower.  We take for granted the fact that we live in a place where, we can open our mouths during our showers, and not get a disease that makes you so sick you have to be hospitalized.  We can make our showers as hot as we want them, and most likely, unless its a 2 hour shower, not run out of hot water.  And then on the other hand, we so often forget that that hot water we use, some one has to pay for.  Before I left my old church about 5 years ago, I took a trip with the youth group to Juarez, Mexico.  The option of taking a shower was definitely there, but it was cold water and we would have to keep our eyes and mouth shut in an effort to not catch any thing.  As we drove through the streets, my youth pastor at the time reminded us that the people at the orphanage school we visited through out the week would never receive a hot shower and probably not have a new set of clothes until Christmas when another youth group generously comes through with collected clothes. Point is, we so often take for granted jumping in a hot shower every day, and with in 10-30 minutes being done and not even thinking about the people who don't have it, or the people who provide that money or whatever for us to have our showers.  Be thankful for the things we so often take for granted. And pray for those who wouldn't take it for granted if they indeed had it. What do you have trouble taking for granted?  Let me know in a comment :o)