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Without oxen a stable stays clean, but you need a strong ox for a large harvest.
Proverbs 14:4 (NLT)
For the record, I like a clean and well organized environment. Whether it’s at home or at work, I find it more peaceful and efficint when things around me are not cluttered and chaotic. I do not, however, feel the need to live in a museum. I never want my home to be a place in which I or any of my guests are afraid to touch, walk, soil, stain, spill, or generally mess up the feng shui.
The Vander Well home is intended to be a place of life. Our house is meant to be fully “lived” in. In my experience, if you are living life, then things are going to get crazy, chaotic, and occasionally messy. I love a clean and organized environment, but I find that an abundance of life usually makes it hard to keep things that way at all time.
So, when you come in the door of our home you may kick off the shoes if by doing so you are making yourself feel more at home. But don’t do so out of fear of breaking the museum rules.
27 Fear of the LORD is a life-giving fountain;
it offers escape from the snares of death.
There are days where I feel drained, like there is no more to give. This verse reminds me that I need to lean on God and he will fill me up. What a refreshing reminder.
i’ll keep that in mind when i come by to visit lol
You’re always welcome! Come on up to Iowa (but you might want to wait until May – or so if you don’t want to freeze!!)
I often use this verse in the ministry, especially the part about where there are no “cattle the stall is clean”. Ministry can sometimes be messy as well, the main reason is that people are involved. Thanks for sharing this verse and your thoughts today!
Thanks for stopping by Bryan – and for the comment! Blog on!