During calving season, the bench near our front
door is the hardest working piece of furniture in the house. Mud-spattered
coats, muck-speckled coveralls, and sweat-dampened hats usually draped over the
bench to dry and for easy access for the next trek outdoors. (Fog-brained,
blurry-eyed, middle-of-the-night cow checks are not the time to go hunting for outerwear in closets and laundry
rooms!) Boots or shoes wet with snow or slathered with mud perch nearby, ready
for another trip to the barn, as do straw-stippled mittens and slime-stained
leather gloves.
Although the bench’s decorative pillows have
been rescued and put out of harm’s way, the occasional kitty
makes a charming bench ornament, providing some optical relief from all the
unsightliness!
“But let it be the inward
adorning and beauty of the hidden person of the heart, with the
incorruptible and unfading charm of a gentle and peaceful
spirit, which…is very precious in the sight of God.” –1 PETER 3:4 (AMP)
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