How Much For the Wings?

Good Morning Monday!

Time to

dance on the desks,

dance on the day

dance

into a new week of

great

possibiity!

Dance on as Joey Graff would tell ya,

it's

MONDAY!!!

Having listened to someone talk this weekend

I thought reflecting the conversation a good way to start the week!

Nothing like a story to get the week goin,

as I stopped by a yard sale and pulled up a chair

after seeing all the many treasures

that await just the right buyer

I had the opportunity

to hear from one

who

decided to let me know

how things were in their life ~

It seems that the view from another

is interesting and although a stranger

the story rang familiar

yet

odd to me that it was shared.

I learned that the reason for this sale

was to raise funds

to cover bad choices of a family member.

and then the story came:

***

"You know, I've tried all my life and worked so hard to help others.

I just am amazed at my family and the bad choices they make, while my life is not perfect I sure do live better than THEY DO, and just look at how I am now raising money to try and help them!

You see, I have some who make just ridiculous choices, they let their kids get away with anything, they don't have any responsibility in their life, they don't study, hell they don't even have to clean their rooms!

I have to go and clean their house, and it is a pig pen I just tell you. And the mother is always late paying her bills, causing me to have to help them, and they always are eating out, you would think they are made of money!

Well, I'm about tired of doing it,

but

what can you do?

So my sister and I we have these yard sales like this,

and

that gives us more money to do things for the kids with

and

for Christmas we got them these nice

video games and a new PSP for their rooms

so they can be like all the others I guess.

But

I'm about tired of all the giving

and

doing

for all

and

see that lady over there shopping now?

Well her kids are just as bad! They have everything you can imagine

and

it's all the best of the best, but she never spends any time with them, just buys their love I think.

AND

that is just not so good.

And that man next to her?

Do you see him?

Well he is just useless in the community, he's one of those that thinks he knows everything about everyone and talks trash about everyone too.

I told him what I think last month

when he was bad mouthing someone

and

now he just doesn't talk too much to me anymore.

I've lived in this community for 56 years

and

I know everyone here

so

he can just look all he wants to!

So

where was I?

Oh yes,

I was telling you about these sales

and the kids

wellllllllllll

you see

I try to tell the kids and their Mom how to do things in their house to make things better,

but

they just won't listen

and

I do know how to do things.

I get so mad at them

and

it just irks the crap out of me

to think of all the things that they throw out

and

destroy

can you even imagine?

I do so much for them, and I can't remember the last time they did anything for me."

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I have never heard so much negativity from one mouth

in so long a time,

and

finally after

hearing all I could stand,

I just couldn't stand anymore

so

I couldn't help myself...

...

and with a grin,

I ended the conversation

with

"So, how much for the wings?"

!!!

The woman looked really perplexed as she stammered and said,

"uh, what wings?"

I kept grinning and said,

"the wings that are behind you?"

They of course belonged to the church that the yard sale was being held at!

BUT

I wondered if anyone could possibly

miss the point

that we each walk this earth,

each with our own flaws

and

to seek out and find a complete stranger

and

dump such trash out loud and about a family member

to that stranger while offering yourself as such an angel

was

something that

was just remarkable in itself!

Surely

if I could I would like to buy those wings

!!!

Well I amused myself

in the end of it

while

learning another lesson during it.

Some will do anything

to hear themselves talk

and

talk they will

about others

but for the life of me

I cannot understand

how they can possibly think that will make them feel or look good to others.

><

Judge not lest ye be judged I'm thinking.

...

I can only imagine that folks out there give to their families and friends and those that they love,

sometimes at the point of it hurting themselves

and

at times to the point of doing without at times.

BUT

those things I would think are done out of love

rather

than done to hold over another

or

to later be thrown back as

"look at me and what I've done"

but

then again

I suppose many

have their own agendas.

...

I am reminded why I don't do yard sales now!

>>><<<

Dance into MOndays dear ones

on the wings of the angels

as

I prepare to leave for Danville PA this week

to meet the folks at

Geisinger Medical Center!

Be well warriors.

Walk In Beauty,

DRSES

www.drsherryeshowalter.com

author of

Healing Heartaches, Stories of Loss and Life

a book filled of stories of those who have loved and grieved

and

walked into healing