Living with the Laundry Police...

Living with David is like living with the laundry police. We keep a laundry basket in our walk-in closet and David believes that that basket should be empty at all times. As soon as we take our clothes off to get in our jammies at night, David wants to carry the laundry basket into the laundry room and for us to follow to start a load. If for some reason we do not do laundry for a day or two, David becomes very agitated. He will constantly come into our bedroom, walk into our closet, point at the laundry basket and make noises. If that doesn't get our attention, he will pick up the laundry basket, carry it to where we are, and make noises until we tell him to bring it to the laundry room or to put it back.

David has been known to try to do the laundry himself, if we are not attentive enough to stop him. More than once I have gone into the laundry room to find the washing machine running with a single sock or handkerchief in the wash tub! Of course, this is the same David that thinks nothing of dropping garbage on his bedroom floor and stepping over it until Rich or I walk in to his room and tell him to pick the garbage up!

Too many of us are like David in our Christian lives. We have our "pet" sins (dirty laundry) that we don't mind stepping over, but if we see a "dirty laundry" in someone else's life, and it's something that we have under control in our own lives, we are too eager to step over our garbage to point a finger at them!

Let's all strive to keep our own laundry washed and put away and not worry about someone else's laundry.