Your Heart is a Kitchen Floor

If you don't clean a floor for long enough, it looks fine. You just think the darker brown is the color of the floor.

But if someone cleans a little piece of it, even a REALLY little piece of it, suddenly you have a problem-- because you see what the floor is supposed to look like. And that little spot makes the whole floor look bad.

And it isn't fun, and it isn't happy, because once you see the difference, you only have one of two options. You can ignore it and hope the clean bit goes away, or you can stop what you're doing and clean everything else.

Contrast forces us to make choices. Difference shows us that the way it always has been isn't the way it has to be. Maybe you'll get walked on today and sloshed with stuff and griped at, but just maybe, for someone out there you are being the clean bit of floor. Maybe your difference is challenging someone to make a change.

Or maybe, like me, you're facing a choice between elbow grease, and ignoring what you've seen that's good.

Happy scrubbing.