I decided to use Friday's prompt today because I spent all day yesterday cleaning house. Tuesday is my regular cleaning day, but everything got a little extra attention because Les' dad and Lance are arriving before the grand McBRAAM departure on Saturday. When it comes to cleaning house, the final thing I do is light a candle. I want my house to be clean, but I do not like the smell of cleaners!
The big thing on my to-do list while Les is gone is going through closets and cabinets. Since he started working in Hawaii in 2013 we have let a lot of stuff accumulate. I threw our collection of maps away yesterday - some were as old as 1983! Shoes, clothes, books, etc. will be going in donation boxes.
Of course there is other junk that accumulates. Les taught a Sunday school lesson last month about forgiveness. We can't let unforgiveness pile up in the closets of our lives. Forgiveness is an intentional act. Even when forgiveness is not requested, we need to forgive in order to get rid of some of the junk in our lives.
It isn't easy to get rid of emotional junk. Just like cleaning house there are things you have to get rid of over and over. Old hurts sneak up like dust bunnies and we have to get the vacuum back out. But Matthew West's song called Forgiveness has this powerful line, "The prisoner that it really frees is you."
It’s the hardest thing to give away
And the last thing on your mind today
It always goes to those who don’t deserve
It’s the opposite of how you feel
When the pain they caused is just too real
Takes everything you have to say the word
Forgiveness, forgiveness
It flies in the face of all your pride
It moves away the mad inside
It’s always anger’s own worst enemy
Even when the jury and the judge
Say you’ve got a right to hold a grudge
It’s the whisper in your ear saying set it free
Forgiveness, forgiveness
Forgiveness, forgiveness
Show me how to love the unlovable
Show me how to reach the unreachable
Help me now to do the impossible
Forgiveness, forgiveness
Help me now to do the impossible
Forgiveness
It’ll clear the bitterness away
It can even set a prisoner free
There is no end to what its power can do
So let it go and be amazed by
What you see through eyes of grace
The prisoner that it really frees is you
Forgiveness, forgiveness
Forgiveness, forgiveness
Show me how to love the unlovable
Show me how to reach the unreachable
Help me now to do the impossible
Forgiveness
I want finally set it free
Show me how to see what your mercy sees
Help me now to give what You gave to me
Forgiveness, forgiveness
Forgiveness, forgiveness
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Love this post. I share several of your posts with friends and family. Thank you
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