Oh how I know that smell I operated a stand and the people who had it before allowed ice cream to melt in a cooler and never cleaned it out. And when I inharrided the stand there was that nasty stinky cooler I on my own had to clean. I have a strong stomach and nothing makes me sick. But I have admit I came pretty close a few times. -- Can you imagine what a scarcity of news there would be If everybody obeyed > the Ten Commandments? I would rather live my life as if there is a God, and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't, and die to find out there is IN GOD WE TRUST Karen Carter '74 -KC- Ministries -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Jeremy Gilley <[log in to unmask]> > Crying Over Exploded Milk - > > With a houseful of teens, it would totally frighten you to know how much > milk I have to buy in a week. Let's just say that sometimes it takes two > or three of us to push the cart. When you buy so many gallons at a time, > one of them is bound to get missed somewhere along the way. That > "somewhere along the way" happened at exactly the wrong time of the > year. A few months ago we had loaded about eight gallons of milk into > the car, but never noticed that only seven made it into the house. That > lost gallon was in the floor of the minivan under the last seat, lurking > and plotting its evil attack. > > It was in the hottest days of summer and, of all times for the minivan > to need a repair or two, that happened to be the week we had to put it > in the shop. Three days in the shop. Three days of temperatures over a > hundred degrees. The milk swelled up and- horror of horrors- exploded > all over the car! Oh, the humanity. It lobbed milk shrapnel all over the > entire back seat. Milk? No, maybe it was closer to CHEESE. And the > smell! It was something like a barf-and-old-socks combo, with cabbage. > It made its way into every single nook and cranny of the vehicle. The > milk/cheese cleanup was nothing compared to the stench fallout we had to > deal with for weeks. My eyes are watering just thinking about it. Oh > well, there's no use in crying over spilled cheese. > > There's a certain cool driving look. All the windows are down, the left > elbow edges just outside the window; the right hand hangs casually over > the steering wheel. Of course, it's not nearly as cool when you're in a > MINIVAN. But we still got plenty of chances to get the cool look down. > We're talking about a lot of time riding with the windows down. > > Taking care of sin issues in our lives is even more important than > taking every gallon of milk inside the house. When left to simmer, they > can explode all kinds of ugliness in our lives, and it can spill right > over into the lives of those around us. > > God is so gracious and forgiving when we confess even the biggest sin > detonation in our lives. Psalm 51:1-2 says, "Generous in love- God, give > grace! Huge in mercy- wipe out my bad record. Scrub away my guilt, soak > out my sins in your laundry." (TM) Nope, holding onto sin is definitely > not cool. Letting Him scrub away that stench is glorious- it's better > even than that new car smell! Now that's cool! > > As for us, we're still exercising a lot of "coolness" riding with the > windows down. It's still cold out. We're a little too cool.