Posted by Jessica | Posted in The Holy Word | Posted on 09-11-2008
Tags: cabinet doors, crud, discouraged, encouraged, friend, God, help, scrape
Scraping Off Crud
The top of my soon-to-be dresser.
This week my heart felt like gunk. I can easily be discouraged which is odd because I find it so easy to encourages others.
This week I tackled missed deadlines, family sickness and cold weather as I tried to get my heart up and running. I needed to give my gunky funk a tune up.
I always forget to ask for help. Pride, maybe. Insecurity, sure. But, I really think I just forget to ask sometimes! This time I had help.
A friend and follow MOPS leader spent a great deal of time with me over the phone offering help and pointing my heart upward to my Creator. Plus an added bonus, my Mother-in-Love Kris baby sat the kids for 8 hours on Saturday freeing me up to rest and work on the house (cabinet doors are on their way to becoming Cottage White)!
I am still battling a cold and my laundry mountain but I have been renewed with a stronger sense of direction and my heart is beating freely only now without all the crud. Now that’s just in my nose.
Bible, Book of Psalms, Chapter 51, Verse 10
Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me.
Oh, I don’t enjoy asking for help either! Mine is pride, I’m sure of it, in all directions. So glad you were able to work – that always gets me time, alone and quiet before the Lord. If it makes you feel better, I’ve had the same laundry pile in our glider (in the living room for all to see) for over a week. Ugh, if I could I would convince it to get into it’s correct places but so far no luck
. Can’t wait to see these pics! Dresser and kitchen! Oh to refinish something again. Maybe next year 
[...] In fact, I picked this dresser project up a few times over the last year. One such time was written about last fall called, Scrapping the Crud Off. [...]