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Pressure-Washing My Life
||June 05, 2007|2267 reads
 

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Kendal Mobley
June 05, 2007
Wow, Kathy!  What a great metaphor, and with a terrific visual too!  I am certainly going to take some time to pray about this.  It is a very powerful reminder of how pervasive sin is and how surreptitiously it can subvert our lives, if we aren't paying attention.  Mind if I borrow it for a sermon illustration?  I'll give you credit!
Denise Meyers
June 05, 2007

Beautiful Kathy
Sure does make you think about things.
Mind if I use this in our church bulletin????
I type the bulletins for our church and I use stories like this to go along with our lessons each Sunday.
Bless you
Denise

Voice in DC
June 05, 2007
Like you said...it isn't that you did anything blatantly wrong...just didn't do the things you should have done...wow...there is a message going through a lot of these posts that is very similar in vein. 

If sin makes us that dirty, then the cleansing has to hurt a bit just to get it all out - the heavy pressure - but look how beautiful it is after it is all cleaned!
Kathy
June 05, 2007
Pastor Kip and Denise, I'll be honored if you can use the story.  No credit necessary.  Use the picture too if you want to.  Voice, good point that such a hard cleaning is probably painful.  I haven't noticed a repeated theme in the blogs.  We must not be reading all the same ones.  And Rita, yes, I'm glad the "deck" didn't have to be torn down!  Thanks to you all for your comments and encouragement! 
Carol Suh
June 05, 2007

I love that verse, Kathy,.. thank you for sharing your story.  Funny how we go into relationships thinking it's always easy-breazy, but realizing years later that there's work to be done.  And it's so much more true with our relationship with our Maker.  

RuthAnn Wilson
June 05, 2007

This gives such a clear parable about my life, when I neglect nurturing the most important part, my relationship with Jesus.  Thanks.

Sword_in_DC
June 05, 2007
Wow, what a great visual!  Excellent, insightful post, Kathy (as usual).
Sue
June 05, 2007
Great devotional Kathy!
Beth Jordan
June 06, 2007
What an eye opener...WOW!!  God is good...all the time!
Deb Rockwell
June 06, 2007
This is a really great post Kathy.  It is so easy to let the cares of this world make us dirty, and not even know it is happening.  Our relationship with God needs constant work for it to remain good.  Thanks for sharing.
Kathy
June 06, 2007
Carebear, it's one of my favorites too, right up there with Psalm 42:1 (As the deer panteth . . .)

Bestemor, Sword, Sue, Beth, and Deb, thank you for being 1 Thess. 5:11 to me!  (Encourage one another and build each other up . . .)  Love to you all!
Mike McCorquodale
June 06, 2007
Great blog Kathy, It is so easy to let "mold" slip into our life. This is one to think on. Thanks for shareing  your wisdom with the rest of us. Mike
sara burnette
June 07, 2007
Great word picture.Gets you thinking about what kind of mold I have growing in my relationship with God.
Crystal Peede
June 07, 2007
Wow!! So simple yet powerful. This message really hit home for me. Not only have I recently power washed my deck (which takes a long time) but I've realized that my soul needs to be power washed too. Like the deck cleansing takes time when you keep putting it on the back burner, but once it's all clean again, it's a lot easier to keep it up. Thanks for your inspiration!! :)
Patrick Synnott
June 07, 2007
Fantastic Kathy. This will make me take stock of my relationship with God.
Kathy
June 07, 2007
Crystal, I bet your deck didn't need as much cleaning as mine, did it?!  Thanks Mike, Brother Patrick, Crystal, and Racunpoodle, for commenting.  Racunpoodle, I get the poodle, but why the racun?
Suzanne Taylor
June 08, 2007
Thanks for sharing, Kathy.  So true, so true!
Carol Suh
June 08, 2007
Soozanne, you're back!  Or are you just checking in from happy land?
Gretchen Mowery
June 08, 2007
So true. You know how to make a person stop and think, don't ya :). Thanks for this blog.
June Wetherbee
June 08, 2007
Wow that was amazing...Thank you for sharing this. *June
Mike n Laura
June 08, 2007
That is an excellent visual, as everyone else has said. Someone mentioned a devotional. Kathy, have you ever thought about writing one?  ~mike
Kathy
June 08, 2007
Welcome back, Soozanne!  Hi June!  Nice to meet you!  Thanks, Gretchen!  I love getting Enonite comments!  Cathy, I'm sorry I know nothing about wood types.  Can anyone else answer her question about what kind of wood the deck is?  Mike, you're a great ego builder!  I think I know one of your spiritual gifts!   :) 
lostinjorja
June 10, 2007
I love this.
Jordan
June 10, 2007
wow. you have a wonderful life perspective. you're inspirational. kathy, what do you do for a living?
Kathy
June 11, 2007
Thanks Jordan and lostinjorja!  Looks like you are both new to MyChurch!  Welcome! 
Jordan, I teach college Spanish.  Lostinjorja, cool name!
I look forward  to getting to know you both!
 
Voice in DC
June 11, 2007

Jordan, I totally agree with you...Kathy has a great life perspective that is based on a walk with God where she has seen Him work...plus she has a great skill of bringing provacative topics to us in a way that you can't just read over them lightly...

Kathy, maybe this is a little of the feel for what it is like after the power-washing is done...

Valerie Lynn  Williams
June 11, 2007
I remember the first time the holy spirit helped me Preasure wash my life it was very intenst.  I might need a little spring cleaning it has been a long time.  God Keep you close and help you in all your needs.  Amen
Kathy
June 11, 2007

Thanks, Voice.  You definitely have the gift of encouragement!

Hi Valerie!  Nice to meet you!  I love Venice Beach.  (Is that the same as Venice?)

Valerie Lynn  Williams
June 19, 2007
Yes if you are talking of the one south of Santa Monica.  South of Naval Street that is.  The northern part of the state has a much more rural Venice Beach one gas station, a church, and a small  liquar store grocery.
Kathy
October 26, 2007
Thanks, Carrie Ann!  God speaks to us in so many ways!
Brother Todd
May 14, 2008
A little sleep a little slumber and poverty will come upon you like an armed man.  This applies to many areas of our life.  We need to be diligent about our spiritual lives.  That is why we are exhorted to be sober and vigiliant because our enemy goes about like a roaring lion.  If we neglect our spiritual lives it surely will cause us a lot of trouble later, whereas if we would take the care to do the little things right every day it prevents the build up over time like you said.  Inch by inch it is a cinch!  Yard by Yard it sure is hard!
Kathy
May 19, 2008
Well said, Brother Todd!
Virtue
February 09, 2009
Amen!
Kathy
February 09, 2009
Virtue, welcome to MyChurch, and thank you for reading my blog!!
Debbie h
May 07, 2009
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Kathy
May 07, 2009
Hi Debbie!  Welcome to MyChurch, and thanks for the star!!
May 17, 2009
What a great metaphor, Kathy! Thanks for the story. We are studying Psalm 51 in our Sunday school this morning and I am going to use this story to open the discussion of how we allow slow steady separation to from between God and ourselves. Thank you! 
Kathy
May 17, 2009

Thank you, Sec!  I hope the Sunday School class went well this morning.  Welcome to MyChurch!