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Before I dive in, I need to give a little back story.

During the brief season we were AirBnB hosts, I had to keep the house spic and span,  looking like we didn’t live here because, at any moment, we might get a booking.

Cleaning daily should have become a habit that stuck after we stopped hosting, right?  But, unfortunately, it did not.

Let me talk about SCUM. You know, the kind of scum that occurs after weeks or months of not wiping down a shower, sink or toilet.  I know, I went there!  And maybe you don’t have scum issues, but, chances are, I am not alone.

Do you really think my subject is about scum?  Well, it kinda is. Why do we let things go like not cleaning the bathroom regularly, cleaning out the litter box, wiping down the fridge (one of my least favorite things to do), or waiting till things break down before we actually do something about it? We seem to rationalize that those things will somehow magically take care of themselves!

And the things we are responsible for don’t even measure on the stick of what’s eternal and most precious…

Here we go…

“Your brain is the main organ of loving, learning, behaving, and is the largest sex organ in your body,” says Daniel G. Amen, MD.

Do we ever think about our brain, the largest sex organ in our bodies, and whether we’re taking care of IT?  When we don’t think in a healthy way regarding our sexuality, we get off course.  If left unchecked, dirty or not renewed, it will affect our entire life.

It’s no secret that sex is a part of our makeup as humans, even if we are embarrassed to talk about it.  What’s interesting is how our brain records the good, the bad and/or painful memories in regard to the subject, the act, or perhaps the abuse we have endured. We make excuses, rationalize away moments that could bring us closer together or hold grudges.  We are creating paths in our brain that hurt our relationships and ourselves.  Over time, sick thinking produces scum that inevitably blocks the flow of love we so yearn for.

 

The scum in our bathroom had spread to the tile shower walls (embarrassing as it is to confess this, I am being honest). There’s really only one way to get that shower clean. The water doesn’t go wherever I want it to so I have to climb in, scrub, rinse with a rag and scrub some more. 

As I’m scrubbing, pondering and talking to God, I heard the Spirit say, ‘You have to be all in’.  That seems kind of silly since I’m ‘all in’ that shower every single day but my motivation for being in there is not to clean it.  Get in, wash, get out.  I brush my teeth twice a day, use that toilet countless times, all the while ignoring how disgusting it is.  Sure, I see how gross it is, but I tell myself, ‘Not today’ and move on…

 

 

To be very clear:  we who have Jesus Christ as our Savior have been given his mind:

 ^“But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised.  But he who is spiritual appraises all things, yet he himself is appraised by no one.  For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he will instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ.”   1 Cor. 2:14-16

Let me end this particular post with a challenge to be ‘all in’ and begin to think about what we’re thinking about in regard to our sex life, married or single. We have been given tremendous gifts:  An idea.  A thought. A will.  What we do with them is up to us.

…until next time,

Daune