Quit hiding the hard stuff—Heal it.

I was pulling out of my garage, and as I was, the folding tables and folded cardboard boxes that were leaned up against the wall in front of the car crashed down right in front of the car. 

I was obviously annoyed.  I was going somewhere and didn’t want to stop and pick up all that dusty stuff, but knew I had to because I couldn’t pull back in with those all across the garage.  

I got out of the car and audibly said “ugh” and started picking up the tables and boxes. As I did, I saw that behind where they had leaned against the wall was a trap with a big rat caught in it. 

Well, another “ugh” and “eewww” and I stacked the tables and boxes, but so I could see the rat in the trap, so we can get rid of it.

Well, gross.  But also, lucky.  I didn’t realize the trap was behind all that and who knows how long that rat would have been there.  Those tables have rarely fallen like that. I ended up being grateful for the fallen tables and boxes because they revealed something yucky I needed to take care of.

How many times do we get frustrated at things that happen in our lives that are inconvenient and uncomfortable? And then when things that are icky get uncovered, we just want to cover them back up again, letting them rot away in our souls.

Sometimes we notice that something makes us more angry, sad, or frustrated than makes sense.  We might say things we wish we hadn’t.  We might ignore it.  We might justify it by blaming someone else.  That’s like covering the rat back up. When we acknowledge it’s us, and look inside ourselves, we might find things we don’t love.  But then we can work to change them.  We can get that ugly rat out and reset the traps.  

Coaching helps you with that awareness and can help you get out those hidden rats.😉