My granddaughter loves the animated Peppa Pig cartoon. If you are not familiar with Pep Pig, then you probably have no idea what a Muddy Puddles day is, so allow me a brief minute of your time to fill you in. Muddy Puddles, is any given day where children celebrate being a child. It’s become, kind of a way of life; I’m learning. It’s the idea of taking a bad, gloomy day and shifting it towards finding the fun in everything around you, and letting go of whatever it is that is causing your day to be bad or gloomy. A Muddy Puddles day encourages us to let go of our everyday stress and problems that can bind us to any kind of sadness or gloom. A Muddy Puddles day embodies the act of kids being kids, and adults remembering what it was like, being a kid. While some of us may look at a rainy days as blue and sad, we have to make the choice and effort to turn those days around to our advantage and find the positive sunshine, even the fun, in them. Peppa Pig teaches us to never allow anything to steal our smile or dampened our spirits.
The celebration of this fun childhood
inspirational idea is a therapeutic reprieve for parents, and an opportunity
for our kids to have more fun while they still appreciate what it means. I’m
learning from my precious little granddaughter, that there is a lot you can do
with a muddy puddle, if you just put your mind to it. You can jump in it, dig,
splash, splatter, make muddy art, and even just plain ole, sit down in the
middle of it, if you feel like it. For the most part, most people do not like
muddy puddles. They are a nuisance and bother, especially if you are not
properly dressed to step in one. But today, I would like for you to see the
muddy puddle from a learning perspective. As I mentioned, some people do not
like muddy puddles. Some folks do not like rain at all. They feel that it
hinders their plans, it prevents some kind of event from taking place in their
day. It may even keep them in doors longer than they wanted to be. They just
can’t seem to find anything good about them. This way of thinking puts me in
mind of an Old Proverb that says, “Instead of complaining that the rose bush is
full of thorns, be happy the thorn bush has roses.”. You see, it’s all in your
perspective.
Many people who go through horrible circumstances find it very
difficult to understand how other people who have gone through the same thing
and come out with their sanity, and not marred with cynicism are able to do it.
If a person is only looking at the negative outcome of a situation then they
will be caught up in the whirlwind of it. Everything in life has its purpose
and reason for being. If for no other reason God makes muddy puddles, he makes
them for children to enjoy. And, for the adult, maybe they are reminders that
with God, even what appears to be muddy in our lives can turn out to work for
the good, if we embrace them as God tells us to according to Romans 8:28 “And
we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them
who are the called according to his purpose”. Once that reasoning is embraced,
anyone can enjoy a muddy puddle, no matter their age.” In God’s hands, intended
evil becomes eventual good. Joseph flourish in the midst of tragedy when he was
placed in an old muddy puddle at the bottom of a well. He even told those who
placed him there in Genesis 50:20, “You intended to harm me, but God intended
it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.
Nothing escapes God’s reach. Every government, king’s heart, weather pattern,
and molecule that is in man, are at His command. As satan weaves his evil,
destruction and despair into our lives, God can reweave them to our good
according to His purpose. What muddy puddle are you in today sweet friend?
Loving on you today,
Bren
