First off - Bearrie Business
- Zach is all over the US at med school interviews. If I am not mistaken he is in St. Luis and then headed to Houston today or tomorrow. Keep him in your prayers.
- Our good friend Julianne Dana had some car issues - I guess she heard back from the shop that it is totaled (the motor is shot - she ran it dry). So she is temporarily in my truck... but she is kind of in-between jobs... SO, if there is any job opening in an agency that has to do with social work or with some kind of program organization (for example ILP or HEFY), let her know.
- Charlie is kicking some booty out there protecting the ol' US of A; we have also listed his finance's apartment contract online to sell. If you know of a girl who needs a nice place come winter semester, let us know and we can give her a steal of a deal. She needs to sell the contract before they get married.
- Does anyone know of any "abandoned" busses? Provo Peddlers is looking to snag a bus for. We may need to start knocking on those doors with people who have old busses in the back yard. If you know of where we can perhaps get a bus, let us know!
- That's about all I have got - If I have missed anything important, throw it in the comments and we can throw it on our prayer list.
As far as Bearrie Devo for today, it is nothing particularly exciting - I have just been sitting in my motorhome the last few days (Madison and I bought an old-school Toyota motorhome in Pocatello last weekend) and doing a ton of renovation... and a little bit of pondering. We have bought stuff to re-do the cushions, we have stripped the wall paper off and have started painting everything. It is quite the project.
But it was funny, as I was sitting out there in the freezing cold, scraping all of this gnarly, grandma-style wall paper off the walls, I couldn't help but make a few parallels to my life.
Here is this nasty stuff that is chemically adhered to the walls. It is hideous, and nobody wants it. I was armed with the right tools to take it off - I had a new, sharp scraper that I could get in there between the paper and the wall. With the right tools, removal was possible, but the work wasn't totally uniform. There were sections that I could rip through easier than others; it felt SO good when I would rip a whole square foot sized piece off! But then there were sections that I could only get pieces off that were about half the size of my thumb nail. So all I could do was just keep removing thumb-nail sized pieces off one-by-one.
It made me think a lot about our struggle to rid our lives of sin. Sin can be a pretty adhesive thing. We may have let certain sins "chemically adhere" to our souls for, as in the case of our 1989 motorhome, 24 years! This leaves us with quite the job if we want to scrape it out of our life!
Here is the thing, we have been armed with the right tools to get any type and amount of nasty sin out of our lives. We have the Atonement. The Savior has provided us a way to remove the old nasty wall paper. All we have to to is put in the work.
HOWEVER, the work needed to remove sin is not always equal! Some sins are thrown away easily. Some - not so much. Perhaps stealing cars, prostitution, and murder never really stuck in the first place, so it is pretty easy to rid them from our lives. BUT, some of their equally hideous wall paper counter parts, like greed, anger and bad thoughts, have seemed to set up pretty nicely on the inner walls of our souls. And unfortunately for us, there is no way, but to pain-stakingly peel them off piece by piece.
It sounds pretty gnarly - BUT - we can do it! It is for sure possible! We can make nasty walls look crisp and clean again!
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