Watch Your Step

While on an afternoon walk today, I cautioned my daughter, "You better watch where you step, you might step in some dog poop."

Daughter #2, who was walking along as well, piped up and assured me, "That's why God gave us eyes, mom."

Hmmm?  My brain started considering this thought - God gave us eyes to see so that we wouldn't step in some poop.... hmmmm?  Is there something to this?

Stepping in poop ranks up there with other high ranking unpleasantries.  It stinks, it's smooshy, it's grose in every way.  Sometimes, even after a thorough washing, the smell lingers on.  Yuk.

Maybe God did give us eyes to help protect us from this kind of misstep.  Perhaps, we could broaden our ideas of what other things in our lives we can 'step in' that have 'similar' consequences of the spiritual kind.

Things like maybe, stepping in someone's lies, stepping in someone's hypocrisy, stepping in someone's emotional vomit, stepping in someone's manipulation or selfish ambition or self-righteousness or 'strong leadership'... (I'm sure you can insert many other nasty smelling poo - and of course the worst and most frequently stepped in is our own!)

Perhaps, our spiritual 'eyes', are meant to reveal these poop bombs before we step into them.  Perhaps, we should OPEN them up so that we can see with the eyes of enlightenment given by the Holy Spirit so that we would be saved from these tragic missteps.

Cuz, quite honestly, the smell from these types of spiritual missteps cling to us for unsavory long periods of time.  Yep, they stink us up alright.

And the tragic of the tragic is when we can no longer smell the stink of ourselves and start believing that we don't stink at all and then we actually dwell in the poop thinking that it smells lovely and are deceived into believing that others applaud us for our fragrance!

Oh, this sounds silly, but think about it.