Treasured Trash

The holiday is over and i am busy getting my house back in order before the new year. This year has been so much fun and full of firsts. First birthdays, first steps, first words, first full nights sleep in a long time, first moments with my son that i will forever remeber. I also fell in love with my husband again this year. It is funny how every year I find new things there are to love about him. I also lost a friend for the first time this year. God opened my heart to new things and took old things away. I am left baffeled by the sheer amazing power of our Lord and Savior and that is why I am writing this. After Christmas I always end up picking up all the trash and just dumping it out in the bins behind the house, my "always in your business" grandma always urges me to save it all and use it next year and I laugh and think that would be ridiculous to try to wrap with the same paper next year and how unCOOL! But when i was reading the other day i stated to see my trash differently...i stated to look at my life and all the trash and mucky left overs I had just laying around my heart and my mind. I thought of how many times I have found myself just sitting around amist all this trash...and that i have waisted so much time surround by trash and there has to be a way to clean house in my own self too...Something cought my eye...John 6:12 " Gather up now the FRAGMENTS (the broken pieces that are left over), so that nothing will be waisted." i love that "SO THAT NOTHING WILL BE WAISTED!!" That is the key here..Nothing is waisted ever to God...he doesn't look at me and see the things i have not yet done..the house that isn't clean yet or the laundry that is pilled up waiting to be folded...he doesn't see that book i didn't finish or the flower bed i didn't weed...he just gathers up the left overs and makes something new..he lays new things before me to use what was left over and gives me new avenues to use those things not yet used. Remeber that nothing you do or go through is ever waisted in your life...IF YOU GIVE ALL YOUR cares to the Lord. If some of it looks like an abandoned old car...Jesus can reshape the peices into something beautiful. So if you find yourself at the end of your rope or even at the end of today and you feel like you only have little to give him...after all the dishes are done and babies are all asleep and your husband is full and watching tv...find a place and sacrifice the last little bit you have to give...let him have the last morsals of yourself everyday and watch him begin to take each thing...each piece of trash and design somethign miraculous.

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