This past week my boys have been at summer camp. While they’re off having fun we’ve been adjusting to life without having two teenage boys running around. First thing we noticed was that we weren’t washing dishes, we hadn’t washed a load of clothes in 3 days and that the house was still clean several days after we had cleaned it. The laundry room is spotless, the family room has nothing on the floor and there are no wrappers or cans in the couch. It’s clean.
But it’s also missing something…fun. Having kids around makes you messy, but it adds the most valuable of things…LIFE. Bring the boys back, Let’s get the place dirty again.
So it is at work, especially in high traffic facilities such as the Rescue Mission campuses. WE strive hard to keep them immaculately clean and it’s a standard we won’t budge on, yet never find yourself wishing that “if only these people weren’t here we could keep this place REALLY clean. No, the only reason we want our buildings empty is when we have successfully housed all the homeless and helped them get back on their feet. Until then, let’s fill the place up, overflow it and keep on cleaning.
David Curry
