Perception...

Every morning, I face my own personal Everest, i.e. the ever-growing mountain of dirty clothes that is taking up over half of my master bath. Yes, we have a hamper but it has long overflown its brim, spilling out into the floor and thus creating this mass of stress and irritation for me. I try to ignore it but it's much too large for that. This past Sunday as I was getting ready for church I decided to move this mountain and step on the scale. I don't think I have to tell you what an awful decision that was! As I continued getting dressed, I grumbled and grumbled about the mountain and chastised myself for being lazy and undisciplined. About that time, the bathroom door opened and Teddy scampered into the room, completely oblivious to my rantings, and proceeded to make a nice, comfortable bed out of that mountainous mess.

The end result of his pawing and rearranging was this nice, warm, cozy bed. Then it hit me, this concept of perception. I looked at this mess and saw only my inadequacies -- Teddy saw only a cushy soft pile. What a smart guy that Teddy is -- he sees only the good from the bad. I learned a lot from Teddy that day. Yes, I still need to do my laundry. In fact, there is always going to be laundry -- hopefully not this much at one time but life is not about a clean house or made bed. When it comes my time to face my Creator, I will not look back on my life and say, "I sure wish I had done my laundry!" I'm going to try to live my life in such a way as to see all the good in things and not the negative. This pile of clothes, instead of causing me stress helps me to see my blessings -- I have nice clothes to wear, a nice, big master bath to pile them up in and a really nice washer & dryer that works great should I ever decide to do actually use them.

I'll leave you with a poem my dad used to say to me when I was little:

'Twixt the optimist and pessimist, the difference is droll;

The optimist sees the donut - The pessimist sees the hole.

Gotta run...

~Lisa =)