How Much Soup Does It Take?
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This is Fruitycake. I’m not gonna sugarcoat things today, because soup with sugar doesn’t sound very good. And although my name is Fruitycake, well, you can’t be sweet all the time.
I’m mad at the rain. Very. It’s cold, muddy, cold again, and it’s made my Boy Person sick. He is trying to keep us warm, but the wood is wet, the rain is nonstop, and then he has the waterworks inside with Girl Person crying. Now, I have to say, none of this is affecting my meals or my play. It is affecting my hikey hikey time, though. And when Girl Person can’t walk with me, she feels bad for me, we all feel sad, and it’s time for soup again.
You need a lot of liquid for soup, and we have that covered for sure. But how much soup do you need to feel better? Asking for a me… Fruitycake.
It’s easy to tell someone to stay warm when you’re warm. And it’s easy to encourage others when you’re happy. But it sure is hard to help others while you need help. Seems like that is where we are right now. The persons are trying to make our rescue projects better in the midst of feeling the worst they ever have. I don’t know how we are going to do this. I sincerely don’t. And I’m a Fruitycake. And so I need to pull this all together. I need to be happy, patient, encouraging and all-around the best dog ever.
I bet you didn’t know that us dogs have a lot of pressure to solve the world’s problems. Because you are our world. And our job is way more important than any politician’s. Anyone’s. Without us, you can’t live up to your purpose and potential.
So it’s my job now to keep the soup on the stove. No, I can’t cook. Also, we have run out of fuel for the burner. However, it’s my job to bring this all together so we can move on. Things may be delayed for a few days or weeks. We don’t know yet. But we will make it through. With you. Have a spoon I can use?
Maybe the problem is that I’ve been thinking about soup all wrong. I’ve been waiting for the soup to make everyone feel better. Waiting for the rain to stop, for the wood to dry, for Boy Person to feel well, for Girl Person to stop crying and for someone to finally tell us the date we can leave this Italy place. And then, when everything is just right, we can all sit down and enjoy our soup.
But what if the soup is supposed to help us while we’re waiting?
Girl Person says today’s affirmation is I Will Make Room For Joy In The Middle. And the words that go with it are, “Do not postpone every good thing until life is settled.”
November 10 | I Will Make Room For Joy In The Middle
TODAY’S AFFIRMATION
I Will Make Room For Joy In The Middle. Do not postpone every good thing until life is settled.
Maybe that’s something I can teach them. We don’t have to wait until we are back in that America place to have a good day. We don’t have to wait until everything is fixed to laugh. Girl Person can cry and then laugh at me five minutes later when I do something that only a Fruitycake would do.
I think joy is a little like the vegetables in soup. Sometimes you have to look around for them, especially when there’s a lot of broth. And right now, we have a whole lot of broth.
I can’t make the rain stop. I I can’t march down the mountain and buy us a new bottle of cooking fuel. I don’t have pockets, for one thing. Nor pants. I’ve heard Digby hated pants and I agree.
But I can keep asking for hikey hikey time. I can keep reminding my persons that there is still a whole world out there that needs us, and that includes dogs in shelters who are waiting for their own persons to find them. Maybe we can’t solve every problem today, but we can still do something good in the middle of all these problems.
And maybe that’s how we get through this. Not by making one enormous pot of soup that fixes everything, but by sharing a little bit of what we have with each other.
So how much soup does it take to feel better?
I don’t know. But I think we should keep making it, even if all we have today is a spoon.
And if you’ve got an extra spoon, bring it over. We’ve got room at our table for you.
Fruitycake
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P.S. From Fruitycake
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Love again,
Fruitycake 🐾
