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Blessings in the Messes

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Sometimes life is a mess!   As I sit in my own office you can barely see the top of my desk as just about every available flat surface is cluttered with some books or papers of some sort!   Sermons to preach, classes to teach, meetings to prepare for, schedules to keep - my office sometimes resembles the aftereffects of an F3 tornado! Maybe your life looks a lot like my office.   You just can't keep up with all the demands, you can’t tidy up all the clutter, you can't organize all the tasks.   Stacks of papers to be filed, toys to trip over, dishes waiting to be washed, laundry overflowing the hamper, to-do lists that seem endless.   Sometimes life can just get jumbled and untidy!   Sometimes life is a mess! Now I certainly don’t want to discourage tidiness and I'm not one to dispute the old adage,     "Cleanliness is next to Godliness" (I'm thankful that one's not in the good Book), but maybe we can look at our messy lives through a ...