It has happened to all of us. Well, at some time or another. If we weren't careful. We put a pair of socks in the drier and... they are never seen again. Wooo spooky. Somewhere, somehow, in the great big scheme of the science known as laundryology those socks vanished. Single socks everywhere search to find their lost mates. They sit in the perpetual basket, destined to become one of a mixed pair, saved for the yard work. Did the socks actually disappear? Doubt it. Their mate is probably in the basket with them. Just not paired up. I remember one time I spent close to thirty minutes going through what was supposed to be the misfit socks. It was a basket full. At the end of the thirty minutes I think I only had maybe three socks that weren't still part of a pair.
In the hustle and bustle of everyday goings on we tend to gather a basket full of unpaired socks. We lack the patience to put the pairs together. Maybe it is "patience" and the "children". Or maybe it is "a caring heart" and "a listening ear". Things that should go together. Things that make a relationship complete. It is not that we don't have the ability or the desire (which, by the way, make a good pair of their own) it is that we've put them in the misfit basket, thinking that we can not use them. We hope that one day we'll just come across the match. But it doesn't always work that way. Sometimes you have to sit down in front of the basket and set the time aside. Go through it. Find out what you have in there that isn't being used. They are things that you must want or you would have thrown them out. Pair them up so you can start to use them again.
Put things like prayer and supplication back together. What about patience and long-suffering? Humility and a servant's heart. Love and sacrifice. And two of my favorites... "the substance of things hoped for" and "the evidence of things not seen". A beautiful pair, that went back together make up your faith.
Don't let these important things get lost in the laundry.
SDG
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