by Liz Clark | Oct 19, 2015 | Personal Development
“Can someone please explain why there’s a broken plate behind the toilet?” We can safely add this to the list of questions I never thought I’d ask. As a busy wife, mom of 4 kids, and business owner, sometimes little things slip between the cracks. Little things like cleaning the extra bathroom. When I finally did get around to it, I found the shattered remains of a salad plate under the toilet. After some professional mom interrogating, I discovered that one of my kids thought it would make a nice base for a candle. When it inevitably fell and broke, said child swept it behind the toilet because he “couldn’t find the dust pan” and forgot it was there. Isn’t life a lot like this sometimes? Things are going well and then – BAM – things get messy. Maybe: Things don’t go as planned. Someone isn’t on board. Someone lets us down. We miss the mark. Emotional messes. Unresolved conflict. Disappointments. We have messes at home, messes at work, messes with friends and family. At first, it doesn’t seem like too much to handle. We deal with it as best we can and move on. But, after a while, we get tired of dealing with messes. We don’t want to take the time to find the dust pan – there’s too much other stuff to do! We need to live in the moment, people! So, we stop cleaning up messes and just sweep things up as best we can, pushing a pile of dirt behind the figurative “toilet” in our soul and moving on. Eventually, we run out of places...
