Big Yellow Miracles

Recently my two-year-old granddaughter was outside with me. We live right across the street from a high school and many school busses go back and forth from the school everyday. They are very loud and can hold you up if you are trying to get in or out of the neighborhood. Every time one went by she got so excited and would say in barely intelligible words “Big School Bus!” After about a dozen times I said “Yea a school bus!” She looked at me and gently corrected me” BIG School Bus”. I got it.


The Bigness of the School bus was the thing. It was down right amazing to a little two year old. It never occurred to her that they were too loud. Of course they were loud. They’re huge! They’re not an inconvenience. They’re a freaking yellow miracle rolling down the street!

I had to ask my self this question. “When did I forget that a big huge yellow school bus was a pretty amazing thing to see?” I had been seeing them everyday and missed that they actually had a beauty…a coolness…and amazing factor.

What is really phenomenal about this is that my brain reacts to whatever thoughts I feed it and my entire being is affected. My countenance, my attitude and my energy are dictated by the words I am choosing to think and say.

I am in total control of this process. I can change how I feel, about anything, by changing what I think about it. I can go from exasperating frustration to peaceful appreciation by simply changing my words…about anything…even big school buses.

Now I might decide I really don’t want to live where the school buses run every morning and that’s okay. But I can’t see them now without smiling because my story about school buses has forever changed. “Big School Bus!!!!