One of our Sisters is celebrating her birthday today.  We have a strange custom of decorating the bathroom the night before the person’s birthday, so she is greeted first thing in the morning with birthday wishes.  This Sister did not expect this, however, because she was staying at one of our other houses overnight.  That’s the background.

She got up this morning, went to the bathroom, looked in the toilet and saw something red floating there.  She started asking herself: “What is that?!  Is it a bug?!”  A few moments later, she looked up to see all the decorations she had missed when she first walked in.  Including a note about  how beautifully and wonderfully made she was. The “floater” was confetti that one of the Sisters had tossed into the toilet water.  (Like I said . . . strange custom.)  By only looking in the toilet, she had missed the other decorations.

Spiritual lesson to be learned here: Don’t spend your life looking in the toilet and missing the eternal realities.  Lift up your eyes and heart!  😉