Filing Cabinet
Not long after Jenny and I got married we made our first important purchase together, we bought a filing cabinet. We didn't go all out on our first filing cabinet but decided to stay simple and buy a nice two drawer cabinet that would fit nicely in our apartment. Within about a month of owning this filing cabinet we learned a very important lesson, files placed on top of the filing cabinet remain on top of the filing cabinet unless acted upon by an outside force. A consistent pattern began to develop and can still be seen to this day. Papers, bills, and other important documents get placed on top of the cabinet until one, or both, of us get frustrated enough to deal with the pile.
Sometimes this process of removing the stack on top of the cabinet is instigated when we realize that if it were to fall on one of our kids we might not ever find the child again. Recently, as I sat on the couch starring at the Tower of Babel-like stack of papers on top of the filing cabinet, I realized that I handle my emotions very much like I handle our files. Nothing has brought this to the surface more than the constant transition that we have found ourselves in over the past year. In the midst of moving, saying good bye, celebrating God's faithfulness, grieving loss and all the other emotions that are par for the course, I find myself just stacking the emotions of life up and not taking time to sift through them. That is until I get frustrated at the "emotional pile" or they start to fall on top of my kids. So I'm making a concerted effort now to take the time to celebrate what God has done, to grieve loss, to say good bye, to the building of new relationships, to finding deep joy and rest in the Gospel and to dealing with the pile on the filing cabinet.
-Steve
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Sometimes this process of removing the stack on top of the cabinet is instigated when we realize that if it were to fall on one of our kids we might not ever find the child again. Recently, as I sat on the couch starring at the Tower of Babel-like stack of papers on top of the filing cabinet, I realized that I handle my emotions very much like I handle our files. Nothing has brought this to the surface more than the constant transition that we have found ourselves in over the past year. In the midst of moving, saying good bye, celebrating God's faithfulness, grieving loss and all the other emotions that are par for the course, I find myself just stacking the emotions of life up and not taking time to sift through them. That is until I get frustrated at the "emotional pile" or they start to fall on top of my kids. So I'm making a concerted effort now to take the time to celebrate what God has done, to grieve loss, to say good bye, to the building of new relationships, to finding deep joy and rest in the Gospel and to dealing with the pile on the filing cabinet.
-Steve
More about our transition
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