stain magnet
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It's been a family joke for years that my brother-in-law will manage to paint his shirt with whatever he happens to be eating. At the same time, I can't seem to wear a white shirt without a blob of coffee finding it's way on to the center of my shirt. I've also ruined a few dress shirts by putting my pen in my shirt pocket without putting the cap back on. That was painful. I'm a stain magnet. I admit it. This morning I pulled out one of our ginormous coffee cups. It was the Mickey Mouse mug we paid too much for at one of the 137 gift shops at the Magic Kingdom in Orlando in 2005. And then we realized that we were out of half-and-half and that the 2% milk just won't do. But then, that's what ice cream is for. It makes for a great clutch play for a decadent coffee experience. And so Lara dropped a scoop of the ice cream into the empty cup and poured the piping hot freshly ground and brewed Starbucks Gold Coast over the top as the coffee became nice and foamy with a slight blob of ice cream that hadn't fully melted yet. |
| I sit down in the living room while the music is playing; the children are playing "elephant" with some over sized blankets over their bodies as they crawl around the floor crashing into each other giggling. I go for my first sip of the decadent coffee with the ice cream blob floating in the middle and then it happened. My soul patch caught the ice cream blob and my white shirt I had just spent 20 minutes ironing caught the Gold Coast. Lara laughed at me as I raced in to the kitchen to grab some paper towels. Of course my only option was to grab that last little piece of paper towel that is glued to the brown tube ... I'm a stain magnet. It's that simple. I just can't get away from it. It's actually the same with our life. People are stain magnets. We have the stain of sin finding it's way on to us all the time. What's awesome as that Jesus washes away our sin. He doesn't cover it up. He washes that stain away. In fact, He makes us whiter than snow. He took on the stain of sin for all of us and actually became sin for us. Only Jesus can deal with the stain of sin in our life. Through faith and belief in Jesus we can receive the free gift of "stain removal". I decided not to change shirts today. I needed to be reminded of how awesome Jesus is and how un-awesome I am. Stains (sin) will always find me. I'm a stain magnet. At the same time, Jesus will always clean me ... When I ask Him (becuase I'm sorry I grieved Him and not simply becuase I got caught or stuck in a bad situation) and allow Him to (when I fully surrender my sin to Him and let Him clean me up without trying to clean my self up.) | |
I really liked this one, I can see you running for the kitchen and boy, can I relate.
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Chris:
Thanks for that! I miss our talks! Give my best to Bob!
dan
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