Love is just a four letter word

Crap. It happens. Why do bad things happen to good people? Why do good things happen to bad people? Who decides if it is good or bad? Humans.

I recently discovered that I eat shit and live. That the by-product of most living forms, when applied to the proper place in the proper manner, is love. In its real form crap fertilizes our crops so they grow in the abundance needed to feed more people. It's how we replace what we take from the soil to nourish it so it will feed us again and again. Without it the soil is depleted and grows pitiful plants that barely feed the deer. We need that shit. It grows our roses as well as the thorns in our lives.

In its spirit form crap is the flat tire on the way to work, the catsup on the white shirt of our life. Let's go with that one. You are having a nice dinner with friends and, SPLAT!, there it is, bold and red on the front of your nice shirt. Now what? You have three choices - ignore it, wipe it up, cover up with a napkin and hope you can get it out later or run to the loo and carefully run cold water through the spot until it clears, pat it or blow dry it as best you can and return, mostly spot free but slightly damp, to your dinner.

What happened here? You had to change direction or go on wearing catsup on your shirt. In most cases, you had to move. You changed gears from what you were doing to doing something actively different, at least for a time.

When life is good humans and animals tend to come to rest. They develop patterns of behavior that become repetitive because they bring the most pleasure with the least effort. It's normal and it's ok but it's dangerous. A deer using the same trail gets careless and, BANG!, he's venison dinner. A human, a creature built to seek food and walk all day hunting and gathering, uses the same roads all the time, knows the traffic patterns and the timing on the lights then one day someone from out of the area comes flying through and WHAM!, he's finally getting some pay back for the years of car and health insurance. The whole family goes through some changes.

When you are needed to help with a special assignment from the Divine Love he moves you to go the way he needs with an unavoidable change in your life. He teaches you what you need to learn and then he will point you to where you are needed. It will be a place where something or someone needs loving help from you. It will be a situation you understand fully and can, with full understanding and compassion from personal experience, help them cope with. It will be a place where just being the way you are is going to be exactly what was needed.

Things in your life have moved you in the direction you need to go, taught you the things you needed to learn and given you the caring heart and understanding for another in that situation to help them over the hump. That's not bad. That is good.

Sometime then, when things look like shit to you, just remember it's just another form of love to help you grow to be the best you possible. When you lovingly correct a child to protect it or teach it, it may look like a crap deal to the kid, you know it's love. It's all in the way you look at it. The Divine Love only creates good lovingly for each of us. It just sometimes what is lovingly needed is a good dose of fertilizer.

You do not have to change one thing about the way you are right this minute. If he put you there you are what he needs you to be to deal with the situation. Divine Love does not care how you dress, what your habits are, how much education you have, who your parents are or how much money you have. It knows when you are the best one to send.

Do whatever comes to you in a day lovingly and kindly for yourself and others and you will be going the direction he needs. If he needs you to go that way and you choose to go cussing and swearing and dragging your feet, as we all tend to do as we see something as shit in our lives, that's ok too - as long as you are going.

He isn't asking you to change, he is asking you to change direction. How much more important do you need to feel than being the one person who can do something so specific for the Divine Love that it is putting you on the path you need to follow in such a way that you can not mistake it? When you have no other direction to go then go ahead knowing it is the right way for you.

Around here we say, "Watch out for the whale!" If you feel like you are unable to go any direction but one and you don't want to go that way so you feel you are stuck, you feel depressed, angry, frustrated and confused as to why all this that is forcing you that way has happened to you - it might just be that he has a plan and you have to go THAT way. That confined, dark, nasty feeling may be a virtual whale he has sent to get your attention.

It might look like shit, but love is also a four letter word.