I love to be organized. I love to walk into a dark room and find something without even turning on a light. To open a cupboard door and know exactly where everything will be. You get the picture. So imagine what tearing up my kitchen floor has done for my tidy little life. Yep, totally made it chaotic. Nothing is where it should be, from the dishes on the dining room floor, to the stove in the living room doorway. Only because I know the end result, a new and better kitchen floor do I let my house become a mess.
Where is this going? ( and Jim, you'll love this) Well, in the midst of stripping all the glue off the floor, a 20 hour endeavor, I started thinking about how this applies to God. If we had a choice, our lives would be neat and tidy, everything would fall neatly into place. But often times, God has other plans. He strips us down and reorganizes our lives so that we can be better than we were. He SEE'S the end result, even when we don't. So next time my spiritual life "seems" a mess, I'll just remember that God knows best.
Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Organized
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I do love it, being a former "floor guy" --- hardwood & tile that is. Nothing like being on your hands & knees for some perspective.
I can identify in a way. I just spent the past 3 days unpacking boxes taken from a 3 bedroom house where we lived for 12 years and trying to make them fit into a 2 bedroom apt. that is much smaller. A different kind of mess, but I was thinking the same thing as you in your mess. It has to look worse before it looks better. Thanks!
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