Hello, and welcome to Mud Puddles! Welcome to a place where you can hopefully find encouragement, guidance and love through tough times and a place to find joy and support through the good ones. Sometimes in life just a simple change in our perspective can be the one thing we need to help sorrow encourage growth, frustration turn to understanding and difficulty give us strength. A mud puddle is a perfect example of such perspective. A mud puddle to a parent could mean extra laundry, to an engineer or construction worker can mean a problem, to a mechanic a broken car and to a child unending joy. We never know the full story of those around us and sometimes when we struggle with another persons response or choice we get angry, frustrated or defensive. But if we stop and change our perspective and try to “walk a mile in their shoes” we might find ourselves giving a little more grace and trying to learn more about those around us and offering our help instead of our judgement.