Explore the
room you’re in as if you’re seeing it for the first time. Pretend you know
nothing. What do you see? Who is the person who lives there?
There’s a fire burning in the gas
fireplace with a dog lying on his dog bed next to it. The TV is on, displaying a hockey game, and
there’s a photograph on the entertainment center of what looks like a family of
2 boys, a mom, and a dad. A basketball
is lying in the flying next to some empty boxes for a PS4 and other newly
received items….probably gifts from the recent holidays. It looks like a typical, middle class,
American family home. There are some items of interest though that I can’t
place. There’s an interesting piece of art over the fireplace mantel of a women
and some children. The setting looks tropical and rural. There’s also some pottery with a tropical
look as well and two photographs of sealife, a turtle and a ray. This indicates to me that the family either
has visited or lived previously in a place more tropical than the NW.
Whenever I enter someone else’s home, I am
naturally curious about their lives…how their families and lifestyles are
different and similar to my own. It’s difficult to look at my own living room
and think the way I do as I enter someone else’s home…To me it seems a warm and
happy place…somewhere I would be comfortable, but I decorated it and picked out
the furniture with my family, so of course, it’s comfortable to me…it IS
me. A CLEAN SLATE is not as easy as it
sounds. I know I hang onto way too much that I need to turn over a clean slate
on, but that’s human nature, nature that we have to fight against daily in
order to move forward in certain relationships and duties in our lives. Forgiveness, Prayer, and time is the only way
to wipe any slate clean, in my opinion, so I’ll keep working on that, and maybe
one day, I’ll be able to see my past as a clean slate and move forward to the
next adventure while leaving my “heavy life load” behind!
“Then
Peter came and said to Him, ‘Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me
and I forgive him? Up to seven times?’ Jesus said to him, ‘I do not say to you,
up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven.’ Matthew 18:21-22
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