Carpet

If you haven't read Tori's post 'Putting Down Wood Floors,' please read that before continuing. Last night we had what you might call a small flood in our home. A pipe burst, and water was all in the hallway, in the living room where the piano used to be, and into our TV room. It took some time to clean up, but this story isn't the exact point.

Our TV room is carpeted, and the carpet had been down for years (like 20 or 30). Underneath the carpet we have beautiful brick floors. We had been thinking about pulling the carpet up, and when this happened we had to. It was dripping wet. We got it out onto the driveway, then started pulling up some of the foam stuff.

I began thinking about what Tori had said about the different carpet parts and how they parallel to your life. Sometimes when you have an emergency or tragedy, people find out more about who you are, and get to see more parts of your life. When we got down to the brick some of it was beautiful, but some of it was very dirty. When hard things hit your life and people see more of your character, what are they going to see? Are they going to see the life that God has cleaned up and made new, or are they going to see spots where you have delayed giving things to God and cleaning them up?

If you haven't asked God to help you get rid of these things, do it now. Many people say that character is built under pressure, however, in all truth, character is revealed under pressure. What will tragedy reveal about your life when it hits?