Down & Dirty

I had been dreading this project for over nine years. I knew it was there, but if I kept the door closed on it maybe it would go away. My storage room contained a lifetime of my memorabilia. If I wanted my house to be sanctified then this was the place to start. And start I did, on July 28th 2006. For an hour and a half in the cool of the morning, I trudged through memories, good and bad.

I found trinkets, letters, and clippings. You name it and I found it, stuff spanning over my lifetime. (Childhood, teen, college, single adult and married) Ugly stuff, pretty stuff, weird stuff, useful stuff, useless stuff, stuff I just wanted to forget and stuff I don't ever want to forget. What do you do with such stuff? I chunked most of it, charred a lot of it and cherished much of it. You mean a cozy chiminea fire in July? Yes!

There are videos and tapes that I wanted to stop playing in my mind. It could only help matters if I destroyed certain triggers that keep hitting the play buttons. And for that matter, I wanted to destroy evidence! I want the evidence of Christ to far outweigh the evidence of evil. I'm not who I used to be, thank God, I'm a new and clean creature in Christ. And by the way, so is my storage room after a month!