Yuck Free!

Today, for the first time in several weeks, I really cleaned the bathrooms. Not the lick and a promise I'd been giving them since I first got sick many weeks ago, but a thorough scrubbing. You know, when you get down on your knees and reach every spot all around and behind the toilet and surrounding floor.

I also cleaned the refrigerator. Same deal, took it all apart, everything out... got up close and personal to all the hidden areas. I scrubbed and disinfected everything. I threw out a lot of expired food. Salad dressing from last year... Yuck!

Same thing in the bathroom. Yuck! Both these areas "looked" good on the surface, clean to the casual observer... and believe me, I am married to the most casual observer on the planet. As I mentioned in an earlier blog, he would clean if he noticed something needed cleaning. He just never seems to notice. I didn't really notice either... and was really too sick to care. But there was a lot of mostly hidden Yuck!

It's funny how much joy I felt cleaning toilets! It was wonderful having enough energy to do the job right. I can't say how satisfied I am in knowing everything in my frig is truly edible and all surfaces disinfected. Yes, it's good to be feeling better! It's great to be Yuck free!

If we look for it, if we seek, we shall find a lesson in every experience... even cleaning toilets and neglected refrigerators. Like so many things in life, even our spiritual health, they seemed fine on the surface, but on closer observation, there was YUCK!

To stay spiritually healthy and fit, we need to be cleaning the hidden nooks and crannies of our lives often. A balanced diet of Prayer, God's Word, Fellowship and Corporate Worship is also necessary. I have yet to see a growing believer who rejects any of these areas the Bible teaches us to apply to our lives.