“Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper, but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy.” Proverbs 28:13

It was blue, it was full… and it was lying right there in front of my house! I simply couldn’t believe it when I saw it! Then I got PO’d about it, after confirming it was exactly what I thought it was! A bag of dog poo! Someone had walked their dog, picked up it’s poo in a bag, and then dumped the bag in front of my house! The infraction was deserving of hell’s fire!

Looking up and down the street for a poo infractor revealed no clues. So I picked up the poo bag, then disposed of ‘it’ in MY garbage can. After washing off, I got in my truck and headed out to hold signs for Jesus! Approaching the corner, I saw potential Poo-perps rounding the corner. ‘But it couldn’t have been them,’ I reasoned. ‘They’re old folks, have 2 HUGE dogs, and the bag was small!’

Lowering my window, I asked if they might know of any dog owners with blue bags. “Well WE have blue bags,” the excited English lady exclaimed! “Where was it lying again?” After I told her, she said, “Oh that’s OUR bag! We collect it and then leave it to pick up on the way back home!” I stared… then blinked… then said, “Well ma’am, today I took care of your it for you!”

What else could I do or say? I couldn’t believe the audacity of someone who would do such a thing. But this woman confessed! And while it wouldn’t be something ‘I’ would conceive, her thought process held some logic! Why carry poo when you can choose to NOT carry poo… quite as far? I felt kinda stupid, but smarter as I had learned a lesson after all.

The lesson I got was… ‘the sooner one drops their poo, the easier life gets!’ AND ‘carrying around poo longer than necessary is really silly!’ Then I thought, ‘maybe Jesus had that lesson in mind when He told Old Solomon about getting rid of sin.’ So…. Whatayado with YOUR poo?