Pressure washing areas of my life.

Pressure washing areas of my life.

You may laugh at the title. I did.

Pressure washing. This natural phenomenon was foreign to me until yesterday. I did not understand the deal and why people always talked about pressure washing or that being a method if cleaning something. I understood the concept. High powered water being forced on something to expel grossness. However, I had not seen it for my own eyes until yesterday.

The beauty of blending families is that we can provide in different ways for one another and Andrew’s mom had a pressure washer and she allowed me to use it. So out came the instructor, Andrew, teaching me how to use and maneuver this thing. It was interesting at first. Slow and awkward. It was trying to get the right pressure in the right place to clean the right thing. A bunch of thought had to go into this. Yet within minutes of practice a natural rhythm began to happen and I was whisking away years of grim into my mulch and getting it on my legs and feet and the smile on my face was crazy huge. To see this instant gratification of washing away dirt. To understand that what once was dirty is now clean it is joy. Now I like having clean dishes and washed laundry but that always gets dirty almost instantaneously after I finish putting away the last thing. Yet this I knew would stay longer. I powered through the rest of the side walk slowing wafting the wand of the pressure washer back and forth as it wiped away 1-3 inches of dirt off the sidewalk. Then it was finished. I started on the driveway and then got too carried away and all of the sudden accidentally pressure washed my toes. Needless to say that was not fun. They stung and burned and today they are still burning. It is amazing how this much force can be used to clean one thing but not used to clean another.

Right before it rained. I mean it poured. I wasn’t worried though because that rain would just help wash off more grime.

We get stuck in places like this. Not sure where in our lives to use a pressure washer to wash away the hurt, pain or sadness, or if we should use the washing machine on the cold gentle cycle. Different times call for different levels of cleaning. We may do quick cleaning throughout the year of our house but typically fall or spring there is a “deep cleaning” a pressure washer cleaning of our house where we clean things that we don’t think about but once a year. Do we do this with our faith? At points do we try and get close enough to God to clean things out once a year but avoid the deep cleaning because it hurts the rest of the year? Many would argue that if we just washed off the sidewalk each time we got something on it, it would reduce the time we would have to spend later pressure washing. There is truth to this. The more often we are in deep relationship with God the deeper we are able to dive into his word without his words stinging but his words supporting, encouraging and equipping.  Our toes don’t burn from the water hose but from the pressure washer.

So happy to have the ability to pressure wash this evening and get even more clean. So happy to have someone who helps make the deep cleaning fun and so happy to have a God who takes us dirty and clean and everywhere in between.

Here is to making the house a home.

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