Poop

Pick a fresh sprig of rosemary from an herb garden and rub it in your hands. Feel the texture. Smell the strong scent. Think about what a wonderful creation it is. Next, pick up some dog poop from the street and rub it in your hands. Feel the texture. Smell the strong scent. Think about what a wonderful creation it is.

What? You don’t want to rub the poop? You would rather deal with the herb than the poop? The herb makes you feel good and the poop makes you feel, well… icky and yucky? Of course it does! And your choice is a brilliant one!

Yes, there is a fair, sometimes unfair, amount of poop in our lives but there is also a fair amount of beauty and love.Why then do we dwell on the thoughts of the yucky stuff in our lives instead of the beautiful? We dwell on the poop because we see all the “bad” stuff in our life as a mistake, something to be fixed, something to be overcome.

No one can change the past. The poop you stepped in a long time ago is gone. Why keep refreshing it in your mind? It happened. Life went on and that poop doesn’t exist anywhere except in your own mind. You can’t go back and not step in it. You can only go forward with a little more awareness and better thoughts.

Today you have a choice. Are you going to focus on the poop or the rosemary? When you lay your head on the pillow tonight and say to yourself this was a sweet day or this day really stunk, we’ll know which one you chose.

(c)2014 All Rights Reserved, Patrick McBride

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