My mishaps have been many lately.  So like I do, I've got to share them. I tell myself that calamities can be claimed for good if you can find a lesson in them. It's hard to figure how everything works into the meaning of life, or does everything?

In the past couple of days:

• I've hit my head twice; once on a little knob in the washing machine (not sure why my head was in there that far), the other smack resulted from the backhatch/ door lift thing on the Armada, falling on my head. I'm wondering if the head-hitting episodes may have caused the rest of my "problems". Either way, I'm placing full blame on the  "injuries".
• I bought a bag of cat food Friday, a big bag of cat food. ……..for our dogs. Ashlee, Hallie's new pup has since killed a bird. Wondering if this is a coincidence.
• I spilled a Ziploc container of Orbeez (bouncy pea-sized gel beads). They're still covering the floor of our front closet. I'm waiting for them to go away.
• I argued (nicely) with the employee and manager at a pizza joint in town about whether or not they had an online service to order pizza. Hayden and Hallie were there to pick up the pizza order. But they had no order for me. It took a genius, Hallie, to figure out that I had ordered from Domino's and that they were at Little Ceasar's. So everything turned out good.

There are other mindless mistakes and just plain annoying things that have happened which probably include forgetting birthdays, letting towels mildew in the wash and unintentionally insulting people when I speak too hastily.  I just can't remember because of the head thing.

This is just the way life goes. Sometimes things work out the way we want them to, sometimes things don't. Sometimes we make messes that are hard or impossible to clean up.  We get injured and we cause injury.  Life can't always be made into a three-step program to become a better person.  And not every occurrence can be given a positive spin. Well it can, but we're not always FEELIN' it! Sometimes my Pollyanna spin on life lands on "Lose a turn" or "Go back two spaces". But I'm still convinced. In the little crazies of life, and deeper in dark places we need to close our eyes and smile.

….we don't look at the troubles we can now see; rather we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever.

-2 Corinthians 4:18

In the end, it won't matter, or else it will be made right.