Her name was Candy and she was a little sheltie mix. I would have her on a leash if I was taking her to see a vet. Everything went well until I opened the door to the vet’s office. She could in one quick motion twist her head, throw off the collar the leash was connected to, and head back to the truck. She was thinking, “Something doesn’t smell right about this place.”
“Does it pass the smell test?” is an idiomatic expression many are familiar with. Some say the phrase originally applied to checking the freshness of fish or other seafood simply by sniffing it.
It is also used by my translation of discernment that is found in Scripture:
But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.
Folly is joy to him who is destitute of discernment, But a man of understanding walks uprightly.
Anosmia is the partial or full loss of smell. Do you suffer from it?
Give it some thought.
Gary