One Man's Trashcan, Another Man's?
John 10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. Trash night is Wednesday night. That is when I roll my own portable Gehenna (no it is not smoking) to the curb. Gehenna in the Biblical times of the OT and NT was the the city garbage dump--it was also the place of child sacrifice. I don't kick my trash to the curb....I roll my trash to the curb. That saying of kicking someone to the curb references treating someone like trash....rolling someone to the curb could be treating someone like trash, prim and properly, a la Martha Stewart. I thought I was going up the social scale by getting wheels on my trashcan. How middle class! How bourgeois! What a wus! My old cans were more blue collar Columbia...my new cans? Middle class Mountville. I used to drag my trashcans down my driveway like carcasses, now it is more like a hearse. There was a day, a child, when I didn't like t