I need de-wormed

now before you start freaking out on me, let me explain.

i went running today. nothing new about that. but today it was raining! call me insane but i love running in the rain! there's just something refreshing and fun about it. plus the big mud puddles always make for a good time. today i refraned from jumping in them though because no one was with me and i'd look kinda silly jumping in with no one to splash. i can be such a little kid sometimes!

anyway, on the to the whole worm thing. so everyone thinks of rain as being cleansing and renewing, which it is. it's reviving and makes thing new. but today as i was dodging worms left and right i was reminded that rain also brings out the worms. and isn't that true with us? in order to be completely cleansed, we need to bring the "worms" of our lives to to the surface. they've been hidden under the ground, but when it rains, they come out from hiding. i'd never thought of be renewed like that before. i also just thought of the "rain" washing over me and making me clean again, and it does do that, but for it to last and truely have an impact, i need to deal with the worms of my life- the ugly things, my sin, my pride.... the list could go on and on.

and then after the rain, the sun comes out and the worms all die. and that happens to us too. we deal with the "worms", we work through them, and then the "sun" comes out, and the worms die. then and only then can we be completely cleansed.

so therefore, i need to be de wormed. i could write a book about the areas of my life that need work. you could go fishing for weeks with the amount of worms i have, but i have to trust that God will help me to deal with one thing at a time, and hopefully there will be a day where i can say that i am worm free.