white shoe polish

I am so thankful for friends. The encouragement, love, and support that they provide is, at times, beyond my explanation. In fact, this past Friday, I experienced all three of these qualities when certain unnamed friends decided to "decorate" my vehicle at a bonfire get-together. I think my favorite part weren't the straws stuck in my windshield wipers, or the pink streamers looped through each crevice, but the white shoe-polish on every window proclaiming their triumph: "WE LOVE YOU JON", "SUP NOW?!", and "GO NAVY", just to name a few.

Unfortunately, I didn't take the time to get the polish off that night, so luckily, it was able to harden by morning. I scrubbed at it for nearly ten minutes with one of those foam gas station window cleaners. It wasn't coming off like I had planned, so I went through the car wash. It still didn't come completely off! So now it looks like my vehicle has been violated by a flock of pigeons.

Speaking of that, I was raking my yard this past Friday and I stepped in a huge pile of dooky.

Where am I going with this entry? Oh yeah, my muffler was making some weird noises the past couple of days and I discovered, after further investigation, that one of the clamps had fallen off of it which was causing it to bang up against the bottom of the vehicle. So I took some zip ties and cinched it down tight. Later in the day I heard it banging around again. The zip tie had snapped. So I used two zip ties and, just like the first, both of them broke. I went back at it with a fury that I had not experienced in quite a while and used THREE ties. It hasn't fallen off since.

It's a good illustration for what the Bible calls us to do.

"Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken."
~Ecclesiastes 4:12