Humble pie doesn’t taste very good sometimes, but even if we don’t like it, sometimes we have to just eat it. Last night Amber sent out a text to someone she wanted to get to know better. The crickets chirped as she waited for a response, but none came. Doing things to get the response we want sucks, and today Amber is serving herself a second portion of humble pie. She is eating so much of it that it is making her sick. So today she is turning to prayer, and helping others instead of trying to guide romances, direct friends, and run her own show. It’s bad doggie behavior to try and run your own show, without taking any direction at all. This morning Jillian got out of the front gate and went running down the street, tail wagging, without a second thought in the world. Little did she know that by running her own show, she was in self inflicted danger. Amber chased her down the road in her pajamas as cars honked, irritated that this crazy lady was chasing an unruly dog in the middle of rush hour. Once inside, Amber insisted on stricter guidelines for herself and the dog family. She has had enough humble pie today to last the holiday season. She can either be right or she can be rich. The top thing our ego thrives on is being right. It would rather have you be broke, homeless, and alone than be wrong. In this holiday season, one of the things that is really making her most unhappy is being right and keeping other people wrong. Holidays bring up lots of pain for many humans, but as a dog my emotions only last in the moment. For Amber some relationships haven’t gone well. Some humans are reminded of how alone they really are in the world. How alone they have become is often self inflicted from making things go only their way. All this separation comes from the ego. It uses being right as a tool to separate humans. It tries to convince us we are better off without others. It makes us think we’ll be destroyed if we are wrong. But just look at Jillian the silly Scottie dogs action this morning. She could have been badly hurt or worse, because she just was “ careless in her own decisions” without listening to her owner. Actually, it’s the ego that is destroyed when we are wrong, not Amber. The secret is… overcoming ego. Really pissing it off is the greatest joy. The greatest freedom from the suffering of ego is seeing where others are right and letting them be right. We’re all just trying to survive without eating too much humble pie.
* Amber is focusing on her work today, and blessed and happy to be part of the big picture.
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