Dogs, Vomit, and Foolishness....

I often watch my dogs go outside. When their stomach is uneasy they eat grass. I don’t exactly know why, but soon they are vomiting up the contents of their stomach. It’s gross, but what they usually do next is even worse. They begin to lick up the vomit. I wonder, “if the contents of their stomach cause it to be upset, then why when they expel it out then want to put it back in?” The answer is simple, they are dogs. They are animals doing what their instincts tell them to do. They don’t realize that this practice is detrimental to the outcome. When they do it, I have to go get them away from their own vomit. As with the foolishness of my dogs, so it is with people who never learn from their own mistakes. They repeat them, but expect different results. It is also foolish to believe something about yourself that is not true. When you pretend to be someone or something you’re not, you’ll be pretending the rest of your life. Pretending doesn’t change you, real consequences do. And that only happens when you are honest with yourself. True fools don’t ever learn. And arrogant fools have no virtue. Foolishness is not a practice that God honors. And worse yet, it takes hard work to find a group willing to accept one.

11 As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his foolishness. 12 There is more hope for fools than for people who think they are wise. Proverbs 26:11-12