My day started going downhill at the avocados. I had to go to Wal-Mart today. I've avoided going as long as I could.
For two hours I gathered the stuff we needed (like deodorant) and the stuff we didn't need (like Reese's Christmas Trees and Hershey's Cookie and Cream Snowmen).
Finally I arrived at the produce section. I'm always happy to see those fresh leafy greens because they're cheering me on.

When I've reached them, I'm near the finish line.
I park by the avocados and I go to grab my bunches of cilantro. I turn to put them in my basket, but my basket isn't there. "Someone's taken my basket," I internally huff. " I proceed to walk in meaningless circles searching for my cart. The only unmanned cart is not mine, but strangely it has the chocolates and gum I picked up a few aisles back.

Turns out I'd taken someone else's cart six aisles back in the candy section.

Day's Moral #1

Things are not always as they seem. When in a panic circling the cantaloupes and tomatoes, stop and think. You may very well be the cause of the problem.

Thirty minutes later I pay out with my basket brimming as I make my way through the parking lot. A bag of tortilla chips slips off the basket and right in the line of fire of my cart's front right wheel. I kid you not it sounded like a gunshot. Once more I panic scrambling to pick up the mess. A dear man shouts encouragingly,

"You just fed the birds".

Day's moral #2

View life's messes in a positive manner.

We can always use a dose of perspective. The messes in life often help us see things in a different light.

I was angry yesterday, remember?  I ranted and vomited my feelings about the removal of Phil Robertson from Duck Dynasty. I still don't agree with the decision but I'm pretty sure A&E doesn't care. I was compelled to voice my opinion and I did.

I'm making a concerted effort to think more positively today. Millions of people banded together to support someone they felt was being treated unfairly. Likewise there were other people who offered their perspective differing from mine and I listened. And I learned. The whole A&E Phil Robertson removal is still a fiasco,

but maybe it's making people think about things,

stand up some,

have meaningful conversations.

Maybe we'll make an effort to better understand.

Maybe we'll thoughtfully consider what we have to offer

-a word, a listening ear or a prayer

Take a mess and feed the birds from it.

Day's Moral #3

Don't go to Wal-Mart.