Cleaning Day

Sounds like a boring post from the title doesn't it? Maybe it is. You decide. Saturday we spent most of the day cleaning out our church. You would not believe how many old things we found..stuff from the 1920s even! It kinda felt like TLC's Clean Sweep. We had a trash pile, a sell pile, and a keep pile. Maybe we should have called them first...

Our D.S. and his wife came to help us. I don't know how we would have done it without them. I know that people meant well in keeping anything and everything. And I know that most of them are too old to do anything about it. So a small (emphasis on small) part of me understands why all the clutter. Then the other part screams, "Trash!" We found old Sunday School material, bulletins, fake flowers and vases galore, stuffed animals, dishes that haven't been used in years, extra shingles from the last roofing project...not to mention spiders, spiderwebs, and dust.

At the end of the day we had filled 30 bags of trash along with plenty of other items too big for bags. And, at the end of the day we felt good. It's like cleaning out the church signifies the new changes to come. We feel like there's hope for the church now. And it's slowly becoming our church. So often we find ourselves imagining life at Brookhaven and forgetting we're here to stay. Our de-junking yesterday helped us feel like we are "home."

(Stephen Mowat, if you read this, we found old newspapers in pretty decent shape. One has an article about FDR being re-elected to his fourth term in office. Others have various articles about the happenings in WWII. I figure if you want them, we can bring them with us when we come to Marion next week. We should pass through either on Monday Oct 2nd or Thurs Oct 5th. We'll drop them off at Michelle's office and you can have them free.)

Odd way to end a post, with a note to a friend, but I don't have anything else to say.