I woke up this morning to a note left by my lad "I'll be back at 8:10" he was out looking for ant, he came back all delighted he found a new type of ant (queen and male). But what kind was it? Soon I heard the request. "MOM!!! Can you help me email the ant man? Maybe he can help me figure it out." For the rest of the day the kept asking "Mom, have you heard from him yet? How long do you think it might take?"
He happily helped me care for our critters and then did his math and history for the day, I started working on the cold cellar.
I thought, this will take maybe a couple of hours.. I.... was.... wrong...
You know what we discovered? A stinky smelly potato bin.. oh my. Now.. we knew we had something going on there, but we needed the time and motivation to deal with it. Our move in another six months is good motivation yes?
First we had to clean out all the stuff that a certain loved one had tossed in there over the years, then we removed the potato bin.. the wood was rotting! Hence the odour... Loved one to the rescue, figuring out how to get it out! Once it was out I kicked (literally) the guys out of the way, donned a mask and cleaned up the mess under the potato bin. Boy.. rather icky that!
Then came the fine work of sorting through and deciding.. am I willing to move this? NO? Okay, list it for sale after cleaning it. Do I want to keep it? Okay.. clean it up and organize it. I toss old canned jars of food, and garbage and.. well.. should have taken a picture but didn't.. our lovely big bin couldn't fit ALL THE TRASH!
Wow.. I have to admit, it feels so good having that big job done. And it's clean and no spider webs or icky smell. It's lovely.
Which brings me to this point... It took me ALL day to clean it out. ALL DAY.. I was so very tired, the lad was tired as I had him running up and down the stairs taking things out to the recycling and garbage bins. He worked hard.
All day to clean a mess up from before we were married and was just added to over the past 15 years, cause it's the basement right? Hubby wasn't prepared to deal with getting rid of stuff (cause he's as much a pack rat as I am) so I just left it, I knew sooner or later he'd want to and why put pressure where it simply didn't need to be?
Which makes me ask this momma... are YOU prepared to be patient? Are you prepared to let time take care of that struggle that staring you in the face?
I could have pressured hubby over the past 15 years.. I could have really. I could have said let's argue about it, let's make a stink ... but I didn't. I knew that in time it would be dealt with and then it would all over and done with in one day (a long day mind). When a fellow is ready to let go so it's not a stressful matter.
That boy child who is so focused on whatever issue... are you prepared to wait it out. To enjoy the good, to train the needful and to just wait for the right timing? To see that boy become a man full of character and wisdom? That girl who is becoming a woman and doesn't fully see who she is yet... are you willing to wait her out, to give a nudge when needed, a hug and a spot of encouragement saying "it'll come out okay in the end lovey?"
Are you prepared to NOT be stressed out over something that time will take care of?
I just want to encourage you... to wait.. and then in the waiting.. to be ready, ready to act, to talk, to work, to encourage, to don a mask (if needed) and clean out the ickiness from bad decisions made, to sweep out the old, to make it look new again, to just get the job done even if it's exhausting. But until then.. to just wait and see and enjoy what you have now.
The good Lord tells us to wait on him. He knows the right timing for things. Don't rush it.
Trust him, oh just trust him, believe me.. IT'S WORTH IT!!! It really is.
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