My meditation teacher once gave me a very valuable metaphor. He told me that whenever things seemed to be going “wrong” in my life, whenever I was working on an issue and it seemed to be getting “worse” before it got “better”, to think of it like a dirty pot. When you have a dirty pot and you soak it over night, in the morning all the fat has risen to the surface. Now, one could choose to look at this and simply see the fat and judge it as dirty or bad…..OR…one could choose to think of it as a pot simply in the process of getting clean 
I much prefer the later in my personal life and it has worked wonders. Tonight, however, I had an epiphany. I have been looking at the world and proclaiming that this is wrong and that is corrupt and this doesn’t make sense, etc…..I’ve only been seeing the chicken fat. Well, tonight as I sit here I finally saw past the fat and I can finally see the emerging clean pot. Believe me when I say, perspective is EVERYTHING!!!!! Namaste
