Cats in a Christmas Tree
Cats in a Christmas tree. Its cute but so frustrating. You spend hours decorating the tree, making it look beautiful and perfect, then the cats get in it and pretty much destroy all your hard work. They love to climb up the middle of the tree, knocking things off as they go deeper and higher. There is no point trying to keep them out, they will find a way to do what they want to do. I was sitting here this morning looking at my once pretty tree that has now been consumed by my cats, and it came to me that its a great symbolism of our lives. We dress ourselves up, make ourselves look pretty on the outside, but then sin comes in and destroys us from the inside out. Sin wreaks havoc on our facade of perfection, knocking off the pretty bows and sequins we use to make ourselves look pretty. We walk into church on Sundays looking our best, but inside we are a total mess. I come home from work, I assess the mess and begin trying to put things back where the...