White Board Soul


We have a mini white board on our fridge. I am a pretty absent-minded person so I use it to note things that I will forget when it happens to strike me. Oh yeah, like taking out the frozen sliced turkey lunch meat for my sandwich tomorrow so it can de-thaw. Nothing quite like sawing off a frozen block of turkey for a sandwich at 6:15 in the morning.

Just thought of something. Dry Erase Markers are like Post-It Notes. Both are enough like their ink and glue siblings to do the writing and sticking functions...as well not alike, in that they are not permanent. In fact, the impermanence make them uniquely qualified for their respective roles.

It was getting to the point the other day with the dry erase marker getting old and less firm in its darkness and the board itself having the swirled remnants of many notes gone by, that the writing was pretty much blending it with the dark hued back-drop. The best approach seemed to be to clean the white board with some rubbing alcohol and it was quite the improvement.

Time for a spiritual analogy. When we are sinning and smudging, we will lose the ability to recognize specific sins because they just blend in with the background. Most of the time when we sin we are not even aware of it because it is in our nature. We are born into sin and guilt is in our gene code. We inherit it. Through confession and cleansing (a conscience convicted by the Holy Spirit), we see sin for the darkness that it is.

     

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