Take Care

So let me be honest, I’ve not had time for many interesting musings lately. Scratch that- just as I’m writing this my 3 year-old cousin whom I’ve been babysitting 80% of the time since I got here just walked up to me with a pair of scissors (which she calls “sisters”) and her favorite stuffed animal/ blanket thingie. She thinks that cutting the “yucky” tag “out” will improve her treasure, but clearly if I were to allow her to go at it then her favorite stuffed animal would probably be ruined and all the stuffing would fall out, right?

There are so many things in our lives that we wish we could just cut out, then everything would be so much better, right? Like school, or some of our family members, or some past experiences, but all of those things made us who we are. Every experience we’ve ever had was allowed in our lives by God for some reason. What that reason is isn’t always clear but it’s there for a reason. It’s there to form us into something or urge us along this path called life towards His goal for us. Taking out those experiences and people would leave us as only shells. Those things that we don’t really want to deal with create some kind of odd balances in our lives that we can’t fully understand. But they are there for a reason.

That tag is a part of the creation of that stuffed lion. It’s not pretty, it’s not soft, and it’s not there for aesthetics, but it needs to be there for safety and informative purposes. It had a reason to be there. We are created with “Care Tags” but we are given the Bible, the word of God. In it He offers some guidance on how to take care of ourselves and those around us. When the fabric of said stuffed animal or our clothes or some other textile are stained, what do we do? We look at the care tag to see how to properly clean it. When our souls are stained or just who we are, what do we do? Do we look at the care tag we’ve been offered to see how to get clean so that our souls are pure as newly fallen snow? Why not? Usually the manufacturers know more about the fabrics they choose and used to make their product than we, the consumers do. Shouldn’t we trust our manufacturer about our care? After all, He did give us His care tag for a purpose and reason too.

Love and warm wishes!