"What’s inside of you?"

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Our family did what millions of other families across this fair nation do about this time every year—we carved a pumpkin. Our pumpkin wasn’t just any pumpkin though. It was the pumpkin that we accidentally grew and thought was a watermelon until it turned orange.

I cut the top out of the pumpkin and then it was time for one of us to scoop out the inside. No one wanted to do it. “It’s nasty,” said one of our daughters. “It’s slimy,” said the other. And you know it kinda is. Nobody wanted to do the dirty work of scooping out the pumpkin. So my wife and I did it, knowing that if we didn’t, the smell would be unbearable.

I guess we’re all kinda like our daughters were about scooping out the pumpkin when it comes to scooping out our spirits. There’s all kinds of slimy stuff we don’t want to touch inside of most of us—hatred, greed, anger, jealousy. But God comes along and says, “I’ll do it” because God knows our lives would be unbearable without the scooping.

So smile like a jack-a-lantern today and let God scoop you clean as you make a life.

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