My 7 year old granddaughter is very imaginitive.  She is also quite often wise beyond her years.   A few weeks ago she was at my house playing in the back yard.   I have some river rock in my landscaping.  All the grandkids like those rocks.   She found one that she said looked like a heart.  It is the picture I've used at the side of this page.  First, you have to squint to make it look like a heart but she saw a heart and I love that she did.   She put the rock on the table on my back porch.  I left it there when she went home because it reminded me of her and I thought she might want to color it with sidewalk chalk the next time she came over.  

The next day I went outside and somehow a bird had pooped on the rock.  This bird had to be flying sideways because the rock was on my patio table under the roof on the back porch.  I had planned to wash it off before my granddaughter came over so she would not be upset.  However, I didn't get around to it before it was my day to have her at my house again.  When we went out back I said to her, "I don't know how but a bird pooped on your heart rock."  I thought she would unhappy.  Instead she looked at it and laughed... a lot.  So now I have a rock on my back porch table with bird poop on it that I will not get rid of and I won't wash off.  Maybe someday, but not this Summer, maybe not even this year.  

Sometimes life feels like a bird pooped on our heart.  Things are going well, and then PLOP, some circumstances happen and there your heart is... feeling like it's covered in poop.  It is easy to become discouraged and feel like giving up, especially if you're not as young as you used to be and you feel like life has been one big bad decision after another.   When I feel like this, I cling to this verse.  

Psalm 34:18  The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.

I hope that a bird has not pooped on your heart.  But if it happens, don't withdraw, don't give up.  Cling to the One who cares about your broken spirit.  He will wash your heart white as snow.