Not long ago a friend of mine gave me her snowshoes to use because I was at our cabin alone and I wanted to "take a stroll" through the fields in the snow. I had used the snowshoes last year, too, when the snow was quite deep. I knew this time, with snow only a fraction of last year's depth, it would be like a "stroll through the park."Think again! Even though the snowshoes fit me just fine, for some reason this "stroll" was only step by step...some steps agonizingly so. In some places the drifts were deeper than I had expected so the terrain slowed me down even more. Then to top it off, a bum toe began hurting. This adventure was not cracked up the way I had wanted nor expected.
Then I chuckled out loud and thought to myself: "Isn't life just like snowshoeing some days?" Many times each of us could say we got out of bed expecting one thing but went to bed and looked back to only have had something entirely different come our way. What we expected was not what we got!
The secret in still having a great day, in spite of the curve balls of life, is something each of us must discover for ourselves. How do each of us deal with a "bum toe" when we expect to take a "stroll through the park?" Something to think about.
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Molly LaFond is a spiritual director and can be reached at 920.793.3530 or see mollylafond.com
