While at the store with a friend last week, we happened across these cute pink slippers that caught our eye. I saw that on the bottom sole part of the slipper, there were these thick short rope like things on them and it sort of looked like a dust mop. So, it was a dust mop and a slipper, all in one! I immediately thought to my self, I must get these! In my brain, which is a scary place to be, I invisioned me sliding and slipping all over my tile floors in my pretty big house and just like the "Scrubbing Bubbles" guy sliding all over the big black bathtub, everything behind him was white!! So, my floors will be dusted and clean just by me waltzing around!! Oh joy!! I could hardly wait to try these on and get to it! The next day, which is Saturday, I try them on and they fit quite comfortably. I get to it. I'm sliding around the livingroom, kitchen, office and since I'm not as flexible as I use to be, I can't twist behind me and look at the miracle, but I am still invisioning it. When Bob sees me, (as usual, by now he's not surprised by any of my chinanigans) he's trying to think if he should ask "what's up?" or not. I see him looking at me sliding everywhere and I'm like "isn't it great!". I go on to tell him what it is suppose to be doing behind me. To end the story, he spends the next five minutes pointing out spots or hairs that were missed and after completing a 3 foot by 3 foot square, I was quite exhausted and done. However, if the inventers get a vacuum you can lay on and watchTV while vacuuming, call me.
This episode prompted me to think of other multi-purpose cleaners and even while things not meant for the actual project are being used, we're finding out that there are multiple purposes to almost everything.
While praying for some very close friends to me and the situations going on in their lives, I had to wonder "does God have multi-purposes for these incidents?". Then as I reflect on past horrors to me at the time, I wondered if the Lord had multi-purposes for those as well. It sort of hit me that when something out of the ordinary happens, it sets off a chain reaction. Most incidences set off a domino effect. When I or anyone I love, care about, know or hear of is facing a difficult challenge in their life, I have to think that perhaps that God is using this tragedy, to effect His will in several people's lives.
When my 35 year old cousin who was healthier than anyone I knew - Shawn - got sick, and two years later after fighting harder than anyone on this earth could, passed away, I can't tell you how that affected me. To see my Aunt and Uncle standing up there by his casket and sharing with us parts of their lives with him to all of us, it broke me. To see my cousins and their children suffer over this loss was excruciatingly painful. To see Shawn's twin sister, Stacy, face her first birthday all by herself without her twin brother, I mean words can't explain the heartache because it goes on and on with the first Mother's Day, etc... And it still hurts. But the Lord showed me one of His purposes in that tragedy that He used as a multi-purpose. That was used on me. At that time, God was on a back burner. I wasn't praying, reading, going to church. I was smoking, drinking and only the Lord knows what else.
And I have to tell you, God got my attention through that death of my cousin. I woke up and I straightened up because I realized, yet again, how precious and short life is. We are only here for a short while, the bible states we're as a vapor. I've seen vapor's and they don't last at all. We have a limited time to encourage people and live like Jesus wants us to and love harder than anyone on this earth to touch lives of lost souls who need Him. I am going to try and remember the Lord's multi-purposes when anything, be it good or sad happens. For God causes ALL things to work out for the GOOD. Amen.
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