Ever get a good feeling about garbage? When I first moved here, I looked and the green container, and the blue box and the grey box and was confused. I wondered how you ever figure out what goes where. I was a bit overwhelmed.
Today I put out the garbage and felt good! I had put the stuff in the right places and put the proper containers out to the curb and had a strange feeling of simple satisfaction. I found the instructions! They are in the phone book. It was an accidental finding but very helpful. I just had to sit down and read the phonebook. ( sounds pathetic I know ). It certainly made my life seem so much more simple.
It hit me this morning how simple life can be overall if we follow instructions. Not something that I always jump to do. Come on, we can figure it out by ourselves. Right???? I remember talking to my daughter once about learning from others. She said that she wanted to make her own mistakes. I thought it was a silly response but realize how many times I have done the same thing.
Life is not easy, so I would like to keep it as simple as possible. I am trying to open my eyes and ears to what the Lord is teaching me. A lot of times those words come from others. I know I can tend to blabber but I would like to hear what others are learning too. Blabber or not, I believe we all have something to learn and to teach. And it is simpler to learn before trudging through the consequences of mistakes. Diane
