Twisting and Turning

The photo attached here may not look like much to you, but believe me, it represents a full day of hard work. Much of the time the pipes and wires below the floor boards represent much more work than meets the eye. It's like a cut or scrape that you get that hurts like heck, but should really look worse than it does. Know what I'm talking about?

With our new kitchen drawings, Larry knew that he would need to move the gas line for the stove and the furnace pipes that allowed the cold air-return to work properly. A full day of cutting metal, bending pipe and boring holes in joists would be necessary to create the end result.

Reconfiguring any room in a house creates opportunities for change. Some change is expected and others, not so much. There can be surprises at every turn. One thing is for sure - you'd better think ahead before cutting, bending and scraping, because once it's done, you may not have a chance for a 'do over'.

Our lives at times are much like the details not far below the surface of our kitchen floor boards. Our stomachs twist and turn as we deal with difficult friends, jobs or family members. To keep from giving into their madness, we reconfigure our boundaries, letting them know that we can't give in or the other things that plug into our lives will not work properly. Psalm 56:5 says, "All day long they twist my words; they are always plotting to harm me."

Some days are just tough and the only way we can survive is to rip into the floorboards of our lives and reconfigure the way we've been doing things. They say the definition of insanity is doing the same things in the same way and expecting new results. My kitchen is not going to change until we ripped up some floor boards and reconfigured some pipes and duct work.

What about you? Are there some emotions beneath your surface that need some twisting and turning? I know it hurts like heck, but maybe the result of your changed life will be as beautiful as the end result of the kitchen I'm expecting!