What do you smell like?
Categories: Living our faith, Mission
Today we had a hurricane shutter inspection at our house. Even if the dog hadn’t let us know (loudly) that the inspector was here, we would have known anyway. How? His smell! The guy was a smoker, and when we opened the front door billows of his cigarette smoke wafted in. He was still lit up, and even though he stayed outside, our house smelled like him within minutes. It got me thinking about our “aroma,” which should be a pleasing offering to the Lord. I’m not talking, of course, of a physical aroma that can be changed by a trip into Hollister for a new perfume. I’m talking about the aroma of our lives, the sum total of who we are and how we represent our faith. Do we stink up a whole room with our attitude before we even step foot inside? Or do we make the whole house seem like a freshly lit candle? What do we smell like?
April 3rd, 2008 at 11:54 am
[...] Wow. Am I doing what it takes to think God thoughts? When I started scrapbooking I began to see my life as a series of scrapbook pages. I would stage events solely for the great pages they would make. (I am sorry, friends, who had to suffer through Mexican fiestas, hurricane birthday parties or trips to the circus for no reason at all). Perhaps the height of my obsession was the trip to Disney World where I picked coordinating outfits for the girls based on a really cute patterned paper I’d just found. Because I was a scrapbooker, I saw the world as one giant scrapbook. Recently I have done the same thing with blogging. Because I am always looking for post topics either here or on Dancing Thru Her Daddy’s World, I am beginning to see the world in “soundbyte” sized chunks that would make good blog posts. Think I’m kidding? Check out my “aroma” post here. [...]