by Joanne Wiklund
Isn’t it strange how a dark rainy day can change your plans so quickly? When I woke last Monday, a heavy rain was falling. It was like a car wash, raining straight down, no wind, nothing flying around. So I parked our car out in the driveway in the rain.
A nice clean car to begin with, but after passing a hand over the hood the day after it was returned from the dealership, I felt a fine film of grit all over the paint on the car, everywhere. I knew they had washed it after replacing the alternator, and then parked it in the lot till it was picked up. The grit was everywhere, so I let it sit out there a couple of hours. I decided the grit was from smoke from the Canadian wildfires. Remember the dark days we had back then? I hate to think of lungs covered with that grit.
When I could brush off the water with my hand and no longer feel grit, I ran the car back into the garage. I wiped most of the water down with my rubber broom, then with dry neon colored microfiber towels. The car is glorious. It reminded me of our dating days when we often spent an afternoon under a shade tree cleaning my soon to be hubby’s car. When I thought of that I remembered we didn’t have microfiber towels, we had a chamois, or a “shammy.” Super dryer, did the whole car with one. Just had to squeeze the water out now and then. Do car lovers still love shammies?
Genesis 1:14 “And God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years.”
John 1:5 “This is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is the light, and in him is no darkness at all. 6. If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: 7. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.