Tumble thoughts. We all have them. You start off with one simple thought and that tumbles to something else and a few thoughts later you land somewhere that is nowhere near where you started!

That happened to me tonight. I was thinking about my grand-baby. I had picked him up the other evening from being watched by a sitter. When I got home he was soaking wet. So my thoughts tumbled to soaking wet diapers, to throwing disposables into the trash, to being dumped into landfills and how we just bulldoze dirt over landfills and forget about all the trash that is seeping into our surroundings and poisoning everything around us.

Then my next thought was how “human” of us to take the ugly garbage in our lives and cover it with something more palatable. We either dress it up or completely put it out of our site so we don’t have to think about it. Whether it is garbage that we throw away or the garbage that we bring into our lives or our own garbage inside of us.

How often do we bring things into our homes, our families and workplaces that don’t belong? We try to “cover” it with lies, half-truths, denial and we feign astonishment that someone would call into question something that we find desirable, or fashionable. Things we lust after that really have no place in our lives.

We often bury our own “ugliness” with fancy clothes, stylish hair designs, and the best cars all so people won’t see what is really underneath the exterior and into the festering garbage that lies in our hearts. Wouldn’t it be awful if suddenly everyone you know could see what is really hidden in your heart? It doesn’t matter what you do, how good you are or whether you go to Church every Sunday there is greed, envy, deceit, hate, rage and more that is oozing like a long a forgotten landfill in your soul.

Luckily there is One who can take away the guilt and shame of the secrets we try to hide and will always see us as pure and beautiful when we give our lives to Him. He not only puts up a barrier so the bad stuff doesn’t seep out to poison those around us, He can remove it altogether! I am so thankful to know that my God can make me beautiful on the inside even though the outside might not be so great to me or others. I am beautiful to the one person who really matters. It takes a lot of time and energy to keep those around us from seeing the ugliness inside of us. What freedom it is to rid yourself of the walls that we build to keep others out and then allow yourself to the let the Light shine through you for the whole world to see.