Pant with pockets are great things. They allow for the storage and easy carrying of small items upon one’s person, while offering a little bit of organization. Permanently affixed, they are always there when you need them and, as long as you take care of them, rarely fail.
The downside of pockets is that they tend to hide one’s prized objects. Tucked away safely in their little clothy hideaway, coins, screwdriver bits, screws, important notes, empty candy wrappers and computer memory sticks (also known as flash-drives) are safely but invisibly in place. While that invisibility is great for maintaining one’s secret stash a secret, it’s bad when it comes to washing one’s leg covering apparel.
Many objects survive a good cleansing; coins actually benefit from a bit of a wash every now and then. Other objects, like Kleenex and flash-drives, do not thrive in the wet, spinning environment of a washer. Kleenex tend to spread their soft tissuey goodness all over the other items in the wash; flash-drives just tend to die; the soap, the water and the overall violence of being tumbled about is not conducive to the survival of electronic objects.
There is, however, the odd exception to the rule. Just last week a new flash drive, carefully place in my pocket so I wouldn’t forget to bring it to church, actually survived both a tumble in the washer and a spin in the dryer. Despite having been soaped, soaked, turned and churned in the washing machine; even though it had suffered the heated revolutionary violence of the drying machine, it came out shiny clean and thoroughly unscathed.
It was pleased, impressed and relieved at having made this discovery. Previous run-ins between automated laundry devices and similar electronic components resulted in the demise of said wee objects. No washers or dryers were harmed in the performance of these experiments. They are built for wet, rough and tumbly situations so it’s no surprise that they live through the experience; flash-drives, however, are made to fit in pockets, are intended to travel about in pockets, but not necessarily for being washed and dried when left in those handy clothy storage units.
We humans are not built to be put away in safety. God doesn’t slip us in to His pocket so that we can be safely transported about. We are not set on His heavenly shelves to gazed upon with adoring eyes. We are built for the rough and tumble of life, the ups and downs, the heatings and beatings. We are survivors; we can endure some pretty amazing things. But more than survivors, more than just making it through the rough patches, we are victors, winners both by design and by the grace of God.
Through Jesus, we have the victory over life’s trials and tribulations. His mercy sees to it that we beat out sin; his healing sees to it that we overcome pain; His love ensures that we don’t just survive this life, but enjoy it for all it has to offer.
The downside of pockets is that they tend to hide one’s prized objects. Tucked away safely in their little clothy hideaway, coins, screwdriver bits, screws, important notes, empty candy wrappers and computer memory sticks (also known as flash-drives) are safely but invisibly in place. While that invisibility is great for maintaining one’s secret stash a secret, it’s bad when it comes to washing one’s leg covering apparel.
Many objects survive a good cleansing; coins actually benefit from a bit of a wash every now and then. Other objects, like Kleenex and flash-drives, do not thrive in the wet, spinning environment of a washer. Kleenex tend to spread their soft tissuey goodness all over the other items in the wash; flash-drives just tend to die; the soap, the water and the overall violence of being tumbled about is not conducive to the survival of electronic objects.
There is, however, the odd exception to the rule. Just last week a new flash drive, carefully place in my pocket so I wouldn’t forget to bring it to church, actually survived both a tumble in the washer and a spin in the dryer. Despite having been soaped, soaked, turned and churned in the washing machine; even though it had suffered the heated revolutionary violence of the drying machine, it came out shiny clean and thoroughly unscathed.
It was pleased, impressed and relieved at having made this discovery. Previous run-ins between automated laundry devices and similar electronic components resulted in the demise of said wee objects. No washers or dryers were harmed in the performance of these experiments. They are built for wet, rough and tumbly situations so it’s no surprise that they live through the experience; flash-drives, however, are made to fit in pockets, are intended to travel about in pockets, but not necessarily for being washed and dried when left in those handy clothy storage units.
We humans are not built to be put away in safety. God doesn’t slip us in to His pocket so that we can be safely transported about. We are not set on His heavenly shelves to gazed upon with adoring eyes. We are built for the rough and tumble of life, the ups and downs, the heatings and beatings. We are survivors; we can endure some pretty amazing things. But more than survivors, more than just making it through the rough patches, we are victors, winners both by design and by the grace of God.
Through Jesus, we have the victory over life’s trials and tribulations. His mercy sees to it that we beat out sin; his healing sees to it that we overcome pain; His love ensures that we don’t just survive this life, but enjoy it for all it has to offer.
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