Windows

I love window blinds! Shane and I moved last year and we hung temporary paper blinds in our house because I want to those faux wood blinds in our house. Here we are a year later and we still have those paper blinds hung. That's okay though. I know one day we will eventually get those blinds that I think are just gorgeous! Shane picks at me and says he thinks buying blinds are a waste of money because I am just going to have them pulled open anyway! I love to have natural light coming into the house. It makes me smile and just makes me feel better and you know the saying...when Momma is happy...everybody is happy! But, at the same time, I want to have the ability to close that blind whenever I want and enjoy the privacy and darkness that blinds give me.

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I have been thinking about my heart lately. I've been thinking about bitterness, happiness, love, joy, etc. I struggle with bitterness because I am one of those people who remembers everything. I guess you could say I'm like an elephant! haha I have to continually pray and ask God to empty my heart and fill it up with his love!

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So, as I'm walking into my office building today I walked down a hallway that is nothing but windows. There are no blinds and you can see directly into the office space. There is row after row of cubicles and you can see each person's desk. Their pictures are perfectly displayed, jackets are hanging on their chairs, calendars are tacked to the cubicle walls, and their name plates are all uniformly sitting on the top of the cubicle wall.

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As I walked I began to think about how a heart is like a window. With my heart, I want to have blinds. Some days I raise the blinds so everyone can see but then other days I close it so I feel protected. I feel like with that blind down no one can see my sin, I am simply what someone else thinks I am.

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Proverbs 20:9 says "Who can say, 'I have kept my heart pure; I am clean and without sin'?" No one can say that! We are all sinful and all of our hearts have nicks and scraps and scars. Our hearts should be like the windows in my office! No blinds, no covering, just open and honest. Our scars and nicks and scraps are there so that we may be compassionate with someone else who is getting their scar, their nick, their scrap in the same way that we did. So, ladies, today...pull your heart blinds up...put a glorious smile upon your face and be thankful for that scar on your heart! Wear it proudly so that others may see that your scar was wonderfully healed by the blood of Jesus!!