A Slippery Slope

"Little children, let us not love in word or talk 

but in deed and in truth."

1 John 3:18

 A protein drink by the pond breakfast with the girls

 

 

The fish enjoying a swim in the pond

That was before I slipped and fell into the pond!  Yesterday as I was watering the plants and topping off the pond I decided to take a plant that was in a pot, rinse off the dirt and place it in the pond.  (Water, water everywhere!)  

Now, one thing that I always say to the children when we get around the pond is, "Don't get on the rocks.  You can slip and fall into the pond and drown."

So what did I do?  IN FRONT OF THE CHILDREN , I stepped on a wet, slippery rock thinking I was just going to reach over and place the plant on the ledge of the pond.  Indeed?  No!  It was I who was in the pond--pride and all!  Yuk! Yuk! Yuk!

Maggie started screaming at the top of her lungs.  The children all ran over to see me wallowing in the fish pond--which had not, by the way, been recently cleaned.  It was due a good cleaning.  (Just trying to get you to visualize.  I told my daughter that we should have taken my picture before I got out--not that I really want everyone else to have it etched on their memories.)

As I hurried up to shower (after gracefully getting out of the pond--not!), I realized that there was a very good lesson to be learned from this experience.  Between Maggie opening the bathroom door three different times asking me if I was okay, I pondered what the experience of falling in the fish water had to teach me.  I HAVE BEEN A BIG HYPOCRITE!  That wasn't the first time my grandkids had seen me step on a rock by the pond to place a plant or look at something interesting.  And I ALWAYS tell them not to do it.  

 Lesson to be heeded:

We are much more what we do than what we say.  

Yuk!

Gloria