Here’s are prompt: ….. for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “oop.” Find a word with the “oop” sound in it and use it in your post. Enjoy!
Oops. scoop. goop. soup. I like soup. Vegetarian, please. I like to experiment in cooking. Over time there are fewer, oopses, in cooking at least. We bought some cumin that is exceptionally strong and can only use like an eighth of a teaspoon, a pinch at most. Even if a recipe calls for a half a teaspoon, that’s too much of this particularly powerful batch of cumin. We learned this from experience.
Every mistake teaches us something. It was a big mistake to date a creep after my divorce. It was an even bigger mistake to keep on dating him for a year. But I learned more about codependency and how low I cold go. It brought me to my knees even more than the divorce. It gave me compassion for people who stay in unhealthy or abusive relationships. When it finally ended, it was like waking up from a bad dream. Where had I been? I had lost myself for a while there. Now, I appreciate being in a healthy relationship.
But first, I had to appreciate me. I had to learn to love myself again. Was that rebound from hell really a mistake? Could I have learned to love me without it? I don’t know. I wish I had not done it. I regret that rebound. But God can take a messy mistake and turn it into something good.
It’s like if we put too much cumin, or pepper, in the soup. God can put in other spices, other healthy vegetables, sweet nourishment, to counteract the mistake. The soup becomes rich and hearty.
Do we need to make mistakes in order to learn? Or to appreciate the good things in life?
Let’s hope we learn enough to not make more big ones.
Let’s hope we can heal the mess we’ve made of the planet, mend relationships, bridge the divide.
God help us. I know imagine you’re tired of our mess and want us to learn on our own.
Maybe we will. But could you just give certain people a nudge. You know, the ones who put too much pepper in the soup. Help them, help us, help me, be careful with the pepper – my irritability and critical thoughts….
Add some sweet corn, sweet peas, sweet potato, maybe even some mango. Nudge us to use a dash of compassion, a spoonful of empathy, a cup of kindness.
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April 24, 2021 at 8:28 am
You speak a lot of sense 💜
April 24, 2021 at 8:07 pm
Thank you so much! I’m never really sure if my SoC posts make sense, so it’s good to get that feedback.
April 25, 2021 at 3:15 am
I always enjoy your posts 😊💜
April 25, 2021 at 9:36 pm
Thanks for letting me know! 🙂 ❤
April 26, 2021 at 3:03 am
☺️💜
April 24, 2021 at 3:21 pm
I love the way you’ve developed your theme of making soup into bringing about personal and interpersonal change. Soup is a great metaphor for our collective life in the confined shared space of our planet.
April 24, 2021 at 8:20 pm
Thanks for loving the soup theme
that came back up in the stream. 🙂
April 24, 2021 at 6:33 pm
Good analogy, JoAnna! Most mistakes in life are fixable, Not to be regretted when we learn from them. All the best! ❤
April 24, 2021 at 8:45 pm
Thanks, Cheryl. I still regret some mistakes, but I’m working on that, especially since they have been marvelously fixed. ❤
April 24, 2021 at 6:53 pm
Well done, JoAnna. I guess we need to get comfortable with our own soup before experimenting.
April 24, 2021 at 8:52 pm
Thanks, Dan. I learned that the hard way, but it wall worked out.
April 25, 2021 at 4:15 am
Another honest stream
April 25, 2021 at 9:43 pm
Thanks, Derrick. Honest it is.
April 25, 2021 at 4:59 am
This morning I heard “Where is the love” by the Black Eyed Peas and it made me cry because nothing much has changed since the song first came out. Sending a gentle hug. Happy Sunday despite everything 🤗🙋♀️🐝
April 25, 2021 at 9:50 pm
I can only hope more of us are inching closer to finding the love. Gentle Hugs to you, Bee. ❤
April 26, 2021 at 1:55 am
And right back at you. If we keep trying and learning we might spread more of it 🤗🙋♀️🐝