As I sit here, at this moment there are roofers putting a new roof on our house. One evening during a bad rain storm I was sitting here in my study reading and preparing for a sermon while listening to the storm brewing outside my window. In my study Jim Brickman played piano music from my sound system which soothes my mind and soul.
My girl Cookie started growling and crying towards a closet door.
Much to my shock when I opened the door there was a mini Niagara Falls right before my very eyes. To the world my house looked fine but on the inside my house had a weakness and my study was flooding right before my very eyes.
I have thought about that evening and how my Terrier Cookie saved what might have been worse if we did not get buckets in the study to collect water through the night.
When the world looks at you do they see you are fine while on the inside you have a weakness that permits leakage into your heart and soul? In our daily lives I believe we need to make a daily bucket list, “Things I need to do today as if it were my last day on earth.” On our daily bucket list we need to write, “Take care of myself” for if we don’t take care of ourselves nobody else will.
My prayer for you is that you take care of yourself, be good to you, for you deserve it. In God’s wisdom He made you and I and we are not mistakes to be thrown aside. Listen to nature, listen to yourself.
What are you doing to take care of yourself, to heal and seal those cracks in your wall (of your heart and soul), in your ceiling (your mind) and in your daily life?
Go ahead and take care of yourself and know that not only do you deserve it but you will feel better mentally, psychologically, and physically.
Psalm 121
I love you,
Walter
Tremont City United Methodist Church
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