Take It On Tuesday!

Task 2

How long has it been since you really looked at the bottom of that trash can you empty each week?  I bet you don’t want to look!  Today, clean out at least one trash or garbage can in from your home.  If you are feeling inspired, I bet you could clean several trash cans from several rooms and not even spend 15 minutes doing it!  If you get it too clean, you may not want to throw anything away in the trash can today. (Hint: this is why liners are a great idea. Plastic shopping bags from the grocery store can be re-used as liners for small wastebaskets.)

Let us know how it goes in the comments below.

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Cleaning Up After the 5000

In Matthew 14, we see the story of  Jesus feeding 5000 people, and a verse stuck out to me that applies to home management and organization.

Matthew 14:20 (NKJV) So they all ate and were filled, and they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments that remained.

After Jesus did this miracle, the disciples (and perhaps other people) gathered up the leftovers after everyone had enough to eat.

They cleaned up after themselves.

I don't know what they did with the fragments, but it sure looks like that mountain wasn't left looking like 5000+ people had been there eating.

How about us? Sometimes it's easy to put our energy toward the beginning of a project of a meal or event, but clean up is less exciting. Yet it is an important part of stewardship.

I used to camp frequently and the "Good Sam" motto is to leave a campsite better than you found it. What if we did that wherever we find ourselves? What if each of us picked up one piece of litter at the park? What if we consolidated our dirty dishes for the wait staff at the restaurant? What if we taught our kids (as I saw one lady to) to take a paper towel and wipe around the sink in the church restroom after they wash their hands?

How much nicer would God's world look if we cleaned up after ourselves, and took an extra step to even help clean up after others sometimes too?

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Introducing "Take It On!" Tuesdays!

We would like to introduce a new constant to our blog—"Take It On!" Tuesday  Every Tuesday we are going to share an easy task that you should be able to complete that day which we hope will continue to encourage you toward “Progress not Perfection” as we share in our book.  We hope Tuesdays will become your favorite day of the week as you look forward to Take It On Tuesday! Most TIOT ideas will be provided by author Karina Whisnant.

Here's the first one!

Task 1  

All of us have a drawer or a container where we keep various writing instruments and other necessary desk type tools.  Clean out one of those drawers today.  Throw out the pens that no longer work, highlighters that are past their prime, a glue stick that won’t have a chance in the world of helping anything get stuck to anything else, etc.!  Ready Set, Go!  When you finish the task, post what you did and how long it took you. Who will be the first to inspire us? Comment below. 

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