THE DUMPSTER

 The Husband began a home improvement project two or three weeks ago.  He demolished our 42 year old bathtub and prepared the bathroom for a tiled shower, fully equipped with multiple handicap bars and a hand held portion of the shower head.  Never knowing what is ahead but expectant of slower moving parts of our bodies, this seemed like the wisest improvement to make.  He did all except the tile and the plumbing.  I will say that The Husband does a really good job with his work and the shower is nice.

I will interject here that we did again see my favorite Romans 8:28 in action as when the demo was done, a water leak in the washer that sits in the back side of that tub wall was revealed.  We never would have known until major damage was done so I was thankful.  I was doubly thankful as that 16 year old front loading washer was going to be gone and replaced with an easy dial top loading washer.  I had disliked that washer for 15 of those 16 years but endured.  There's a sermon in that for another day.

Doing this bit of remodeling merited that we rent a dumpster to dump all the trash.  We determined that during those ten days, we would go through much of our goods and dump what needed to be dumped.  That dumpster became quite a friend and a great convenience for ridding of trash.  The Husband and I found we had grown a lot alike as we both tend to hold on to things as "we might use that someday".  We both had to look at the item, think that, then rethink that.  When the dumpster was full, the stuff in it was not attractive and for the most part had very little good use.  The dumpster was delivered AND picked up in the wee hours of the morning so was gone when we got up the other morning.  

As I lay awake the other morning as I usually do, I was thinking about that dumpster and that trash we put in it.  I wonder how my mental and spiritual life would be if I just trashed all the goods that I don't need or that are not beneficial to me.  Emotions such as fear, dread, anxiety, distrust, and so many more would be wonderful just to dump in that dumpster of no good emotions and be carted off in the wee hours of the morning.  I haven't missed anything I put in that dumpster in my yard.  I'm betting I wouldn't miss any of those emotions either. 

I will give it my best shot to dump all those negative emotions and fill my heart and mind with faith, love, longsuffering, mercy, grace, and so many more.  I think a good cleaning out of the heart and mind is a perfect way to move on forward to whatever life has.  Don't you?

"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith."                   Galatians 5:22

Consider....