What's that smell?

Isn't it interesting that when you smell something foul and you look for it long enough, you find it on your shoe?  Last night, I walked out into the dark backyard wearing my comfy bedroom shoes with Reagan.  Walking across the deck, I noticed it, that familiar 'bouquet'.  Leaving my bedroom shoes on the deck, frustrated, I came back inside.  At bedtime, I borrowed Gregg's shoes for a last 'chance' outside for the dogs.  I borrowed the pair he left conveniently at the back door, his favorite pair.  I had to leave those outside also.  What was I thinking, walking out into the night-time landmine that has become our backyard?

Is there a life application here?  Maybe so, if something stinks, check your shoes, you could be the one spreading it all around. 

Then there's the smell of fresh.  How do you bottle that?  Oh, the Glade company keeps trying.  It's 65 degrees outside right now.  Windows open, curtains rustling, and I'm a tad chilly.  Welcome back Autumn, how I've missed you.   Sheets are spinning in the washer now.  If it weren't for a neighborhood association opposed to clotheslines, those sheets would be flapping in the wind soon. 

That's an aroma worth sharing.

Smells do that.  Get us remembering, bring us comfort.  Make us think, "I want that."

I stalked several old women around a mall one Saturday simply because I caught a whiff of Adorn hairspray.  I wanted to smell my grandmother again.  Every December, people are willing to bring a fresh cut evergreen into their home for the simple fragrance of Christmas.   In spite of the vacuuming, watering and limbs that don't support ornaments, there's that smell that can't be duplicated.  It welcomes you home night after dark, December, dead of winter, night.  It's worth it.

Are you fragrant? 

When you walk out of a room what kind of an aroma do you leave?  (to all my family members who want to insert bathroom humor here, please resist the urge) We all leave one.  Maybe not necessarily stimulating the human olfactory nerve, yet still an aroma. 

Hopefully, an aroma that leaves everyone saying, "I want that."

 II Corinthians 2:15  "For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing."

Here's hoping that today you'll leave a sweet aroma.  If not, make sure you check your shoes.

Digging deep, reaching high.