June 5, 2017 www.PositiveChristianity.org presents Positive Daily Inspiration

 WHEN LIFE BEGINS TO SMELL

"Oh to be safe under the shelter of Thy wings." Psalms 61:4

“It was a summer night in the mid-1990s. I was standing on the front porch 
with my son. It was a perfect night, perfect temperature. I had my arm around 
my son and we were looking out over the yard at the full moon. Across the 
driveway in the meadow on the other side of the yard there was a family 
of skunks. I said to Jonathan, ‘Isn't that beautiful?’ They were walking 
across the meadow. We took out our binoculars and we looked at the skunks. 
Then for some reason I turned around and I noticed my dog was outside. 
My dog "Bentley" was an overly friendly golden retriever, who lived for 
one thing, making new friends. I prayed an instant prayer that he wouldn't 
see the skunks. Too late, he spotted them; I saw his whole expression change. 
He got a big smile on his face, and he thought, ‘New friends to play with.’ 
He was off chasing four surprised skunks who were not at all pleased to make 
the acquaintance of a 105-pound-bouncing-fur-ball lunging toward them.

“I saw it happen as if in slow motion. All four skunks raised their tails 
in unison. We heard from the front porch our dog yelp and whine. We saw a 
gaseous cloud arise like an atomic blast and encircle my dog. There was a 
slight breeze blowing from the direction of the skunks to our home. Within
moments a strange smell encircled our entire house. It was so powerful I 
can't even describe to you in this Positive Daily Inspiration how powerful 
it was except my son was crying. He said, ‘Daddy, make it stop.’

“I went into the kitchen to get my can of professional strength Lysol. When 
I was in the kitchen looking under the cupboard for the Lysol, my son let the 
dog in the house. The dog was about as low in spirit as a living creature 
could be. The dog was very embarrassed and so he ran for his hiding place 
under the bed in the back bedroom. This is my daughter Jennifer's room. 
She was away for the week at a church conference. I thought OK, once he 
squeezes under the bed, there is no removing him. I closed the door to her 
room and I thought I would fumigate later before she gets back home on Sunday.

“My son and I went to bed. About two hours later, about midnight, a storm 
blew in. We heard the hard rain and the thunderstorm. My dog was very afraid 
of thunder. He was crying in the back bedroom and I felt so sorry for him, 
but there was nothing I could do. I couldn't let him out. So we went back 
to sleep. In the middle of the night I awoke because I started to smell that 
overwhelming smell again. I turned on the light and in the middle of my 
king sized bed in between my young son and me was the dog. I pulled the dog 
outside, and put him on the front screened in porch because the thunderstorm 
had passed by this time. I thought that if he were on the front porch he 
would air out. 

“The next day he had not aired out. As a matter of fact the smell did not 
age well at all. I went to work the next day and I asked some of my friends 
what I should do. Several people who were there said to bathe him in tomato 
juice. I just stared at them. I thought, ‘Oh, that will be fun – bathing 
this 105-pound-fur-ball in tomato juice.’ 

“They said, ‘Well, you had better go to the wholesale club and buy gallons 
and gallons of tomato juice.’

“Those of you that have big dogs know what I'm talking about. That dog would 
have shaken so much that the whole yard would have looked like spaghetti. 
Tomato sauce would be over the dried yellow grass, while miraculously the 
dog would stay dry. 

“I called the Vet and I got a product called ‘Skunk Out.’ I poured it all 
over him, and I was so thankful it wasn't tomato juice. When he got wet, it 
was just as I predicted, he shook and his fur shed off all fluid. I had a 
lot more Skunk Out on me than he had on him. I literally had it on the back 
of my eyeballs. I washed the sheets, and I shampooed the entire carpeting in 
my house, I even repainted one room.”

We never did fully get the smell out of the back room. The dog hid under the 
bed of my daughter during the time Jennifer was at the church conference. Her 
room had a strange aroma around it. When she returned, she said, "Dad, there's 
a strange smell in my backroom." Jonathan and I just shrugged our shoulders 
acting like we didn't know what the world it could be. To this day, I don't 
think she knows the full story.

Life is funny. Everything can be going well and in a second's time you meet 
one of “life's skunks.” It is OK as long as you recover, but if you don't 
recover, if you hang on to the hurt, you become sick.

There's a song from an old Broadway play that says, "I'm going to wash that 
man right out of my hair." Sometimes, we have to wash the thoughts in our mind. 
We think nothing of taking a shower everyday cleansing away the old, but it is 
in the mental cleaning that we find lasting effects. 

Only God can fully cleanse away life's smells.

Ask God for help.

POSITIVE DAILY PRAYER:

Dear God, when things are not going right, I will 
pray for Divine order, and I thank You for your help 
that is always available to me.
Amen.

POSITIVE DAILY AFFIRMATION: I am kept in perfect peace because my mind is 
stayed on God.

POSITIVE DAILY QUOTE: "Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; 'twas not 
given for thee alone. Pass it on. Let it travel down the years. Let it wipe 
another's tears, till in heaven the deed appears. Pass it on." Henry Burton

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