So, the other day I was at home, wonderfully ticking away all these extra little “to-dos” on my never-ending 🙂 daily list, when I came across “the refill my Foot Care cream containers” item. (Did anyone out there know I have the super-illustrious role of being THE toenail-fungal-scrubbing-Foot-Care-QUEEN in Cranbrook, B.C???!!) 🙂

So, in wanting to make use of some spare time in between baking muffins and making my lunch, I began filling small little containers with beautiful, creamy, spanking white lotion; swiping and scraping right down to the bottom with a delicate spoon. 

Look at me accomplishing so much: lovely muffins produced, healthy lunch packed, lotion containers prepped — all done and delivered, oh, dare I say, AHEAD of time?!!! 🙂

And, as I was wrapping and cleaning up before moving on to the next “MOM-job,” I just may have been eating, sampling and licking bowls of batter and little bits of leftovers. (You Thrifty Moms know how THAT goes; nothing gets wasted and all little extras get eaten by us!) 🙂

And so, I saw sitting there, an “oh-so-delicious” looking spoon with some wonderfully-white plain Greek yogurt. (SEE how healthy we are in our home!?!) And pop! It went right into my mouth to be fully enjoyed… only to have, after the briefest of moments, the BOLDEST of experiences: a stingy, stinky, biting, and bitter flavour of… foot care cream! 

Ugh, what a disaster!! What a letdown!! What a disappointment as I expecting such a delightful taste in my mouth — double ugh. 

Oh my, it took quite a while to fully remove that flavour. (It’s meant to last on feet for HOURS.)

BUT, after plenty of mouth rinsing (and a good deal of laughter), 🙂 I thought, “Isn’t this just like the ‘messages’ we take in all around us?” Like, they might all “look” the same on the outside, they might all “seem” the same on the outside, but oh, one quick “bite” and they sure don’t “taste” the same.

And that sure got me thinking about “what TRUTH” or better said, “WHOSE TRUTH” we CHOOSE to put into our “mouths” (aka heads and hearts), and HOW much it really does matter WHERE that TRUTH is coming from, because even when things seem the same from the OUTside, they can be very, very different once they are IN!

And so, how do I know what is the good “Greek yogurt” for me, my heart, my head, my soul?

Well, you’ll never guess, 🙂 but I’ve learned oh-so-slowly 🙂 there is only one place, one voice, one “flavour” that fits for me all my life: God’s.

No matter how totally tempting anything else looks (especially when I am eager and hungry for ANYTHING to fill that empty or ANXIOUS spot), I have to stop, pause, pray and REALLY choose whose TRUTH I will listen to and allow deep down inside me.

And so, no more false foot care cream inside Carol — nope, there is only one “daily dip” I want to take, and that is right into a big old bowl of good Godly Greek yogurt!

What bowl of TRUTH will you CHOOSE to EAT today??? 

Be Bold, Be Brave, Be a Beautiful Woman of GOD!

Love ya, Ladies.

Carol