This past week our family took a trip to see my husband's parents. As we were leaving and packing our car, someone, not sure who, made Sally an ice cream cone. It was just hot enough outside to melt it a good bit. And she is just not fast enough to keep up with the melt to lick ratio! We were loading the car and I stepped inside to grab a wet towel so that I could clean her up reminding myself to be ever so careful NOT to let her touch me while covered with chocolate ice cream.
I reached down to clean her hands and I thought that i was free and clear but when i stood up i realized there was a small chocolate handprint right on the front of my semi-new shirt. (my husband says that all of my shirts are semi-new because of this very problem)
So today the shirt lies in the trash along with 2 others that i finally gave up because of stains and such. my husband tried to coach me to keep it, to wear it under something else, to wear it when i knew that i would paint or do something crafty but no i threw it away.
and tonight i drove to Target to buy another shirt knowing full well that this shirt would probably end up in the trash sooner or later. realizing that this time is not a time for me merely to survive through... you know, when sally is a grown up my shirts wont be stained, when John is done with mashed sweet potatoes I will surely be free from stains, I am trusting that this is what the Lord has for me. I am trusting Him that He will provide what I need and that it is okay to let go of a semi-new stained- beyond -washing shirt. Trusting the Lord that this is what he had for me for this day and that I am in the time that He has for me and I will NOT always look forward to a better time to come. So trust Him that this is the time that He has for you.
And, as always, thanks to Annie Laurie for spurring me on to write... and for teaching about new technologies every time we talk... ALCW- He is Risen!! He is Risen Indeed!!
