The mice re-arrange the living room!! haha!!
Well as most of you know Brent was out of town for the weekend. So when he's out of town, I like to do somethings that I might not do all in one day! On the menu for this weekend was cleaning, organizing and apparently re-arranging! Yesterday, I spent out and about getting some pictures printed, going to about 6 stores looking for good organizing stuff - which I finally found at Bed, Bath and Beyond. I also went to Danna's baby shower. So today after church and lunch I came in a thought about where to start - the house was a wreck - really you should have seen it!! So I start by making the bed. From there, I take all - and I mean ALL of our clothes in the closets and throw them on the bed or the couch to go through them and move something around in our room. But let me tell you moving Brent's suits is a feat within itself!!! So thus begins the mass cleaning and re-arranging epsiode at my house. I have just moved the bookshelves and taking the books off the shelves and moving the bookshelves and putting the books back on....well.....let's just say that THAT is why I am now taking a break. The picture above is the pile of books that I put on the floor to move the shelves!!
Now can you see why I do this when Brent is gone. He would have - pardon me for going back to 7th grade - had a COW (LOL) at all his books in the floor! Plus spending Sunday afternoon organizing and re-arranging is not exactly his cup o' tea. I thought I would just tell him that sometimes things have to get messier before the get better. Then I thought that kind of applied to my spiritual life. It's been a little messy since we've moved out here - it kinda started a few months before moving though. But now, I think it's getting better.
Our connection class is going through the minor prophets on Sunday mornings and today was the book of Amos. Amos is about God letting Israel and all surrounding nations know that they will judged for their sins. But you see that Israel has something the other nations to do not. They have a covenant with God. He will not destroy them completely, in fact at the end of the book He restores them! God sometimes takes and tears us completely down in order to rebuild us stronger for Him. I'm so thankful that He is on our side and He has such mercy and grace on us. I sometimes think that we do not even know the extent to which that grace and mercy is bestowed to us. Praise be to God of second chances (and third, fourth, fifth, etc.)!
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I do the same thing! All my major cleaning projects have to take place when Jake is NOT in the house. Number one--he gets aggravated. Number two--I start thinking "why isn't he helping me?" and then I get aggravated. If I tackle it when he's gone, then it gets done quicker, and both of us stay happy. :-) Problem solved.
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