Today started off beautifully. The sun rise was as beautiful as most dreamy sunsets. Today's weather was great. The morning was brisk, but not too brisk. The kind of morning that you would want to sit on your three-season porch drinking coffee watching the sun come up.

The day progressed in its beauty as time passed.  When I came home to pick up a paper for my son's school I saw my neighbor mowing my lawn. You see my lawn looked like it could be baled and fed to a small cow for a week or so.

Let's set the stage here. My neighbor is an elderly gentleman. He is still capable of mowing his own lawn with his John Deere riding lawn mower. The point being that it was such a "neighborly" thing to do. You see I tore my ACL in February and had surgery in July, I am still in recovery and not able to mow my lawn. My wife has been mowing the lawn all summer; except for a couple of times when some friends have mowed for us (You guys rock!). She has been unable to mow the lawn recently and Ed, my neighbor, brought his mower over and mowed our whole lawn.

He said he was just being "neighborly". You know, that is the kind of American spirit that our country has forgotten. Is it possible that the Americans have forgotten how to be "neighborly" because of our drift from our religious faith? That is the question that I'll leave unanswered.

So to my neighbor, Ed you have blessed us with a mowed lawn and renewed our faith in neighborhood helpfulness. If you were to have seen the lawn prior to the mowing, you may have wondered if we were going to bale it for hay. It even smelled like hay after being mowed. Thank you Ed!

The term "Clean Slate" refers to starting over, or a fresh start. That's what I've done for this blog. I've removed all previous posts, customized a template and now have purpose and direction for this particular blog.
To start off correctly with this blog, you first must understand that "a clean slate" is offered to each of us. Jesus Christ came to the earth to free us from the bondage of sin, in essence giving us each an opportunity to have a clean slate.
Each day presents us with opportunities to give someone else "a clean slate". Take the opportunity and run with it. Live is too short to hold grudges, start fights, and hurt others. Forgiveness is different from ignorance. What I mean by that is that it takes effort to tell someone that you forgive them. They may not even know that you feel wronged by them. Explain that you felt offended, but you were wrong, and ask for their forgiveness, as well as forgiving them. Ignorance, or to ignore the situation will not render the results that you wish. It will build up inside of you until you do ask for forgiveness.

Seek God, Forgive Others, Get Involved
mk