Wednesday, September 17, 2014 Today is special for us. Today our daughter Tracy was born a year or two ago. A wife and mother with three wonderful boys, she is delight to all who know her, and a treasure to my heart and soul. Happy birthday, T.R. (Tracy Renee), and many more. We love you! + It’s big and green and clumpy. Large enough in fact, to fill one side of his two car garage. It’s a carpet that’s been in his house for well over thirty years—yes thirty. Quality stuff in its own day and time, but it went to see the Lord several years ago, and it was time to move it out. The glory of the green carpet gone is this: Underneath were lovely wood floors preserved enough, we think, to need cleaning, but not re-finishing. Our son Anthony walked in the door of his house about 11:30 or so Sunday evening, took one last look at the carpet, got a screwdriver and hammer, and by 1:30 in the morning, it was ‘shredded’ Off the floor and into the shed! Being a preacher creature, as soon as he showed me “his shocking surprise” yesterday afternoon, I said to him, “Son, why didn’t you ask some of us to come help move all this? It’s huge. How do you expect to get rid of it?” “I’ll cut a little piece at the time,” he said, “and haul it out.” I immediately ‘saw’ a sermon. (In recent years with chemo, radiation and age—often ‘immediately’ takes longer!) A little bit at the time. Hmm. “Let all bitterness and wrath be put away from you.” (Ephesians 4:31) “Your bitterness keeps you from happiness,” a mother said to a son who had indeed been hurt by life and failed friends. “But if I let that go, what’s left for me?” he answered. “Healing and resurrection,” his mother said. “Deal with bitterness and rage, son. With God’s help, you can.” Cut out a piece of anger and resentment and that always looking for a fight, and bring that out to the garbage, and your life will brighten as well as the lives of those who care about you. ‘Can’ the unnecessary language, that slander without thinking, shooting mouths off and feeling bad about it later, stop the ‘bad-mouthing’ and see how much better you feel. Then, when and if its possible, ‘canning’ spite and ill-will, and all those ‘base’ things that restrain our spiritual growth, will make the ‘air’ of your life fresher, and the joy of your spirit come alive, You’re right. It’s true. It seems like much too much a ‘pile’ of bad stuff to get out of your shed. Maybe we might choose to “cut a little piece at the time, and haul it out to the street.” I’m going for scissors. Always love, always, Keith
Posted on: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 11:47:46 +0000
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