Rotten watermelon everywhere!

This past weekend I bought a watermelon from our local grocery. It is summertime and all I could think was, this is gonna be such a sweet treat on a hot & sunny aftenoon! All that sweet, red, juicy fruit, yummmm! When I got home, I put it on our countertop to save for just the right afternoon.

Well, things didn't go quite to my plan.....I woke up this morning to my kitchen painted with red watermelon! I guess the bottom of the watermelon had rotted over the weekend and its sweet red juice and seed were all over my counters, white cabinets running into a huge puddle in the middle of my kitchen floor! I am barely even functioning in the morning ....so cleaning a crazy combusting watermelon off of my kitchen surfaces doesn't work well with my schedule!

But....out the came the papertowels and wash cloths...and I went to town cleaning. I'll even have to do some mopping when I get back from work.



Isn't that like life. We have such good intentions! Something that should be a wonderful treat...surprises us by rotting and messing all over our lives, and really it just messes up our whole routine....but out come the paper towels (tissues), wash cloths (friends)....maybe even some mopping with bleach and pine sol...(a little time bawling before God...forgiveness....and letting go). You just have to clean things up, so you can get back to life:)



I dont know how well this analogy breaks down...but it made sense in my head!



I guess the main reason I wanted to start this blog was to open up the pages of my life and let people see God's grace at work in my mistakes, my fun, my dreams, my fears, and my plans. I am hoping to be very transparent and hopefully inspire others to a relationship with Jesus. There is a verse in Ecclesiastes that says "He makes everything beautiful in its time". Let me tell you....anything beautiful that God has bloomed in my life...is by His grace, even if I fought it, worked for it, hoped for it, cried for it, laughed at it, didnt understand it..... ...He is the giver of every good and perfect gift. I am His...so even the trials and turmoil have been his grace purifying my pridefulness and sinfulness....to make me a pure and spotless bride of Christ when we (the church) meet him in heaven. His heart is always to restore us to him....his grace is good and it is anything that brings us back to Him or makes us more like Him.