Toothpaste

Who do you share your address with? Look around. Do other heartbeats surround your living space? You may live with family, roommates, pets, or room with out-of-town guest for the weekend. Even if you live alone, I’m sure at some point in your life you have shared living quarters with someone.

What does it mean to live with someone? Stop and think about this question. Hanging out with someone, working long hour shifts with someone, being friends with someone for years, or even having good next door neighbors is nothing when you compare it to living with someone. What you I mean when I say….it’s nothing when you compare it to living with someone….

I simply mean that living together brings insightful intimacy.  

We all have thoughts, energy, moods, behavior, rituals, habits, norms and patterns that make up our unique selves. We can learn pretty quickly how someone ticks once we carry in our box of belongings and set up shop.

Think of all the little things that you can learn about a person when you live with them.

What time do they like to eat dinner? Do they squeeze the toothpaste tube from the top or the bottom? Do they leave their underwear on the floor? What side of the bed they sleep on? Do they like to clean the dishes right after dinner or do they wait until the food sticks to the pans….causing you to soak them over night? Even my dog has patterns. Ya know, my dog will only eat dinner when the family sits down to have dinner…and it doesn’t matter if the whole family is together or if you’re dinning alone; when you sit down at the table, then she will eat. Talk about a family dog!

Does this sound silly?

No, because I do have a point.

Insightful intimacy. I feel that we need to approach our relationship with the Lord, as if we live in the same house. I think we need to get to know Him in the same way we know our live-in occupants. I think that if we really knew the character of the Lord, we would have a more peaceful life.

Learn the Lords ways. Learn His character. Learn His mercy, grace, forgiveness and love. You need to have an intimate relationship with the Lord; he craves to have that with you. Pray, read the bible, go to a good church, read inspiring articles and books based on His teachings. Get to know Him. The Lord is always with you anyhow, so why not embrace this presence.

Who knows, you may just learn that the Lord never puts the cap back on the toothpaste!