Hello and welcome back
everyone to Faith Filled Friday and some spring/summer cleaning!
You might find this
odd, that I'd bring up and write a blog about a toilet, but this in fact is
what I am going to do, but give me a second to explain. :)
I have been noticing
the ring around the waterline in my toilet get more and more prevalent. I use
the brush to wash the inside of my toilet with some cleaner weekly. But that
ring bit by bit just continues to grow. Finally I decided to get the old pumice
stone and sponge out with comet and target that ring. I attacked it with
everything I had knowing they are just a pain to get off sometimes. So as I got
into the thick of it, I had this thought come to mind:
How often do we put
off the rings of trouble in our lives?
We put it off, and put
it off and procrastinate about it, even coming up with things that have a
higher priority. Meanwhile the ring around the water does its thing. It grows
and grows I started comparing this ring and the cleaning of it to instances of
my life where I have put things off until I absolutely had to deal with them.
As I scrubbed that
with all my elbow grease I actually found myself really getting into it. It
felt good to see one part of that ring completely disappear. When I started, I
had told myself that if I must I'll do it in sections where I'd clean one part
one day and then carry on the next day, which I actually have been applying
this concept with other things I needed to get done like paperwork.
But as I was scrubbing
away I felt a sense of empowerment – I know; you must be laughing out loud and
thinking whoever thought you could feel such a thing from getting down in a
toilet!
I really started
imagining just what could I apply this motivational effort to where I could
feel his great feeling. Everything in my life has seemed to become so stale and
I do it out of necessity. I want to tackle things with a new vigor. So this
week I am going to get into my closet...deep in the mess and see how I feel in
that. I want to get more into my transform books despite feeling a resistance
of confronting things. I just want to feel the energy more in my life. My back
injury and pain can really suck the life out of me so much of the time that I
just don’t want to try…anything. So bring on the coffee and the closet, but most
of all, bring on the energy that has been dampened by the ring around it. It’s time
to clean it up and set it free.
Isn't that what God
wants for us, to free ourselves from the rings that bind us, the ring of fear,
the worry, even the tears of pain? Let us take to those rings and face them! In
fact let's ask God to help free us and set our sights high... maybe even the
moon.
Wish me continued
strength and energy everyone... :)
Much love and God
Bless!
~John
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