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Has he reached you yet?

I have some cabinets in my kitchen and those top shelves in the clothes closet which are just too high for me to get to the stuff stored up there without a small step-stool.  Even when I stand on my tippy-toes I cannot see what is far back there on the rear of the shelf.  Stuff could hang out there for years until one day I finally get out the stool and start exploring what has been shoved to the back over the months!  I don't think our lives are much different.  We have spaces in our lives, out of reach for a good long time, with stuff shoved into the corners of those places until one day someone takes on the task of finding out what is really there.  At that moment, what is discovered is often pretty terrifying - just like the stuff at the back of the cupboard!  It isn't "good" any longer because it has sat around for too long; nor is it "clean" because it has gathered all the dirt from just being left unattended all that time.  What we most need as...