Tip of the Day 3/23/12

We have been working from the top down in our Spring Cleaning and the dust has settled on the furniture and bedding. Along with the "Winter" dregs, we need to wash it all away. We wash our sheets every week, I HOPE, but not the blankets and comforters. The changing of the seasons is the perfect time for this. Change out the blankets to lighter weight ones, washing and storing the heavy weight ones. Take comforters to the laundry mat and wash in the heavy duty machines, or an easy way to clean them is a combo of the old and new. Take the comforter outside and with the help of a partner shake it well, drape over the CLEANED picnic table, or chairs or other furniture (or clothes line if you happen to still have one). Spray with Febreeze and allow the item to dry outside. Turn over and do the back side as well. It will smell so fresh. Wash all mattress covers, vacuum mattresses, dust the entire bed frame and under the bed. Every surface of the bed should be cleaned. You will sleep well tonight.

Word for Today, Agree: As i was reading this morning this verse stood out to me, "Can two walk together, unless they are agreed?" I have always thought about this verse on a human to human level, in the same context as "do not be unequally yoked." This morning I saw it in the context of my walk with God. I have always thought how beautiful it was that God Himself came to walk in the Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve each evening and how tragic it was that it ended when they sinned, "no longer were agreed with Him." They still had fellowship with Him, but now they had to make the moment by moment choice to be in agreement with Him. You and I have that same choice every minute of every day, do I want to walk in agreement with God's choices for my life or will I choose the ways of the world and not walk hand in hand with Him through my day. We ask where God is in the difficulties, but if we are holding tight to His hand we will know He is walking through each moment with us, good or bad. "I will dwell in them and walk among them."