In a World Where You Can Choose

This picture of what looks like pristine white sand, reminds me of a trip to White Sands, New Mexico over thirty years ago. This picture makes the sand look so amazing.

Today is still cloudy, gray, and rainy here. I thought some of my favorite people might enjoy a sunny picture. Although a gray day like today doesn't normally bring me a bout of the blues, for some people it does.

If I was in the kitchen at the present it might be a different story. My kitchen is still in disarray and I am in denial. Tomorrow my kitchen will look marvelous—after I move out of denial.

I think it was that in growing up we never had 'bad' days. On days like today my cousin Coco and I always found something fun to do, usually playing with the dolls. Sometimes we helped Grandma bake.

If we wanted to go outside we could go play in the barn, or just read stories. Television was a hit and miss proposition in those days. Sometimes we had one that worked, sometimes we didn't. The world didn't come to an end either way.

There is a meme that says, 'In a world that you can choose to be anything you want to be...Choose to be kind.'

That is fantastic advice. There is a lot of good advice out in this world, and there is also some not so good advice. Therein lies the problem.

It is called separating the wheat from the chaff. And sometimes in the process it's not possible to be kind.

I'm not sure what I would choose. To be kind would be a good thing, to be rich wouldn't be bad, or even to be happy maybe, but...

One thing I would not choose is to be fat. But I especially wouldn't want to be a tare or a chaff.

Matthew 13:24 "Another parable set he before them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man that sowed good seed in his field: 25) but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares also among the wheat, and went away. 26) But when the blade sprang up and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. 27) And the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst thou not sow good seed in thy field? whence then hath it tares? 28) And he said unto them, An enemy hath done this. And the servants say unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? 29) But he saith, Nay; lest haply while ye gather up the tares, ye root up the wheat with them. 30) Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather up first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn."