[MajestyJo]

"Having trouble, Piglet?"

"The lid on this jar is stuck," gasped Piglet.

"Yes, it...is, isn't it. Here, Pooh, you open it."

(Pop.)

"Thanks, Pooh,"said Piglet.

"Nothing, really," said Pooh.

"How did you get that lid off?" asked Tigger.

"It's easy," said Pooh. "You just twist on it like this, until you can't twist any harder. Then you take a deep breath and, as you let it out, twist. That's all."

"Let me try that!" yelled Tigger, bouncing into the kitchen. "Where's that new jar of pickles? Ah, here it is."

"Tigger," began Piglet nervously, "I don't think you'd better - "
"Nothing to it. Just twist and - "

CRASH!

"All right, Tigger," I said. "Get those pickles off the floor."
"Slipped out of my paw," explained Tigger.

"He tried too hard," said Pooh.

"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever."

"And he has a Brain."

"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit has a Brain."

"I suppose," said Pooh, "that that's why he never understands anything."

"Ouch!" said Pooh, landing on the floor.

"That's what happens when you go to sleep on the edge of the writing table," I said. "You fall off."

"Just as well," said Pooh.

"Why's that?" I asked.

"I was having an awful dream," he said.

"Oh?"

"Yes, I'd found a jar of honey....," he said, rubbing his eyes.
"What's awful about that?" I asked.

"It kept moving," said Pooh. "they're supposed to sit still."

"Yes, I know"

"But whenever I reached for it, this jar of honey would sort of go someplace else."

"A nightmare," I said.

"Lot's of people have dreams like that," I added reassuringly.
"Oh," said Pooh. "About Unreachable jars of honey?"

"About the same sort of thing," I said. "That's not unusual. The odd thing , though, is that some people live like that."

"Why?" asked Pooh.

"I don't know," I said. "I suppose because it gives them Something to Do."

"It doesn't sound like much fun to me," said Pooh.

No it doesn't. A way of life that keeps saying, "Around the next corner, above the next step," works against the natural order
of things and makes it so difficult to be happy and good that only a few get to where they would naturally have been in the first place -Happy and Good- and the rest give up and fall by the side of the road, cursing the world, which is not to blame but which is there to help show the way.

Those who think that the rewarding things in life are somewhere beyond the rainbow----

"Burn their toast a lot," said Pooh.

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Inspiration Plus

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"Remain open.
There is something bigger than you know going on here."
-- Iyanla VanZant