lost and found
In my kitchen, there is a little fabric hanging on the wall that's meant to be a bill organizer. It's traditionally where things get stuck when I'm in a hurry to clean off the counter.
This is where Wendi's iPod was living...hiding in plain sight for months. I don't know how many times I went through that thing, but it was more than once. I never saw, nor felt Wendi's iPod in there. She has the big one, so it's not like it was a little nano hiding between a couple of letters.
As I thought about her iPod, I thought about me. Like the iPod, I was lost, hiding in plain sight, but lost just the same. Shrouded in darkness, confusion, and lust. Depression had a pretty good hold on me and I never realized it. I was worried about things that in the end would have just worked themselves out.
I found me. Rather, I should say that once I found Jesus, I found me. Once all the clutter was cleared away, the cloak of sins of the past removed, there I was. I've been through a lot. My batteries were figuratively drained down to nothing. Like the iPod, without a charged battery, I was nothing but the shell.
Unlike the iPod, though, I'm not the same. When I charged up the battery, her "P", her nickname for the iPod, worked. Everything that was lost on "P" was still there. I wish I could say the same for me, because when I charged my battery, the reality was that in the process, I lost something more important to me than anything.
I'm not the same as I was. Missing are the things that drained my emotional battery dry. I don't mourn for the past. I try to make a better future. I had the chance to witness to a dear person to me today. Not in the hope of fixing a broken relationship, but in the hope that I could make the person see she was being a convenient Christian like I had been. I hope the things I shared with her will lead her to a minister who can help her. I don't know enough to save souls. I know I was saved but I'm still very new in my Christian walk. All I can do is share the good news that a sinner like me was saved!
I'm not lost anymore. I found myself. I had the people there to help me do that and it's why I share what I do these days on the blog. Maybe someone is going through some tough times and hopefully I can give that person some encouragement and faith.
God bless all of you and hope you have a great Tuesday!
Dale
This is where Wendi's iPod was living...hiding in plain sight for months. I don't know how many times I went through that thing, but it was more than once. I never saw, nor felt Wendi's iPod in there. She has the big one, so it's not like it was a little nano hiding between a couple of letters.
As I thought about her iPod, I thought about me. Like the iPod, I was lost, hiding in plain sight, but lost just the same. Shrouded in darkness, confusion, and lust. Depression had a pretty good hold on me and I never realized it. I was worried about things that in the end would have just worked themselves out.
I found me. Rather, I should say that once I found Jesus, I found me. Once all the clutter was cleared away, the cloak of sins of the past removed, there I was. I've been through a lot. My batteries were figuratively drained down to nothing. Like the iPod, without a charged battery, I was nothing but the shell.
Unlike the iPod, though, I'm not the same. When I charged up the battery, her "P", her nickname for the iPod, worked. Everything that was lost on "P" was still there. I wish I could say the same for me, because when I charged my battery, the reality was that in the process, I lost something more important to me than anything.
I'm not the same as I was. Missing are the things that drained my emotional battery dry. I don't mourn for the past. I try to make a better future. I had the chance to witness to a dear person to me today. Not in the hope of fixing a broken relationship, but in the hope that I could make the person see she was being a convenient Christian like I had been. I hope the things I shared with her will lead her to a minister who can help her. I don't know enough to save souls. I know I was saved but I'm still very new in my Christian walk. All I can do is share the good news that a sinner like me was saved!
I'm not lost anymore. I found myself. I had the people there to help me do that and it's why I share what I do these days on the blog. Maybe someone is going through some tough times and hopefully I can give that person some encouragement and faith.
God bless all of you and hope you have a great Tuesday!
Dale
Loving your metaphors. Sometimes we all need to get back to some of those basic things, recharge our batteries and find the things that we thought we had lost. Lucky for us, God's batteries don't ever need charging. He doesn't lose us, no matter how far away we wander. His receiver and transmitter continue to function, even though our receivers are broken.
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