The Clean Up

Remember that winter storm we were talking about a couple days ago?  Well, it came and went.  It proved to be more than everyone had bargained for.  Most of the towns look a little like a war zone around here.  The storm brought enough snow to the area that it broke tree limbs and dropped them all over.  Needless to say everyone is cleaning up the mess now.

After the storm there is a need to clean up the mess.  Maybe your marital storm has left a minimal amount of clean up necessary, while others may see total devastation.  However, no matter how big the storm or how great the damage incurred the mess left behind can be cleaned up.

A few years ago when Hurricane Katrina came through and brought devastation to New Orleans, the world watched a city and region experience a catastrophe beyond imagination.  Thousands of deaths, property damage in the millions of dollars, and city turned upside down was the outcome of New Orleans....for a time.  Even though the damage was extensive and severe, the city began to rebuild shortly thereafter.  And although there is still a rebuilding going on in that area, the damage is being reversed.  Sure, the memories of the hurricane still linger but its effects are being lessened.

The same is true for our marriages.  You may be experiencing your very own Hurricane Katrina in your home, marriage, and life but all is not lost.  A marriage can be saved out of the rubble.  Nothing is so far gone or destroyed that it cannot be rebuilt.  It may feel like you have lost everything and that may be true  But, with some spiritual elbow grease, some prayer, and lots of tears a marriage can rise from the ashes into a thing of beauty.  Not because of what you or I can do but what the Master can do.

Hurricane Katrina may have been rebuilt with human hands but the restored marriage that glorifies God will be rebuilt and restored by the hands of the Almighty.  Let the clean up begin...

Josh and Serena