Today I was scheduled to do a graveside service at a local cemetery.  I was told ahead of the service that the burial could not take place because 7 skunks had made their new home in the open grave.  So the plan was to go to the cemetery and and have the service in another location.  Tomorrow the funeral home will go back and do the burial if the skunks are gone by then.  At the time of the service 2 of the 7 skunks have been trapped in cages with 5 more to go.

I initially was worried about how the family would react to this news.  When I was at the cemetery and was waiting for the service to begin some of the family told me they thought the skunks were so appropriate because the deceased loved skunks.  Here I was expecting the unusual circumstances to be problematic, and instead it was not an issue at all.

Emotionally I moved from fear to happy when I realized the family was not bothered by the 7 skunks making their temporary home in the freshly opened grave.  It is a lesson to me to see what happens when an unusual situation happens instead of going to a worry mode before I even know if a problem exists.  This is a good lesson for all of us.