Today the sun is shining! It is so great to have a bright house again and to look out at how the sun is melting the snow and drying the wet ground. When the sun shines it brings me so much happiness but it also brings with it a magnifying glass that shows me how dirty my house really is. As it struggles through the dirt on the windows of my house it makes me think of when last I cleaned them (maybe never). It shows all the dirt and dust in the air and the other day Claire was sitting in her high chair looking at the dust floating around next to her and trying to catch it between her little fingers and give it to me, as if to say, "Mommy, you better clean this place up." The suns rays find their way into all the cracks and crevices of my house and reveal the crumbs poking out from under the couch and the dust behind the piano. As much as I love the sun I would rather it just shine on the things that are already clean instead of pointing out to me all of my shortcomings and all of the things I've been trying to hide.
But as the sun shone in this morning I was motivated to get out my vacuum and my duster and begin to get my house into shape. I cleaned and scrubbed all the places that the sun had revealed to be less than satisfactory and washed the grime and dirt off the windows so that the sun could pour in with all its brillance and refresh me with its warmth and light.
1 John 1:5-7
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