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TITLE: This Motel Called Life | Previous Challenge Entry
By Sylvia Stong
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One particular time I remember, we were driving down the East coast in Maine thinking it was about time to stop for the night. We came upon a little motel/cabin type establishment. It looked great! Little white, very nicely painted, attractively landscaped cabins, and we thought this would be good, so we stopped. I didn’t feel the need to check out the rooms since the outside was so attractive, but I was sorry I hadn’t. Inside the cute, tidy looking little cabin the curtains and walls were thick with old yellow cigarette smoke. The place reeked with an unclean dusty smoky odor the bed was lumpy and uncomfortable. We did stay that night but vowed that the next place we would definitely check out the room first!
We have stayed in many motels in our travels. Some were very nice with pools, breakfast, Cable TV. But many were furnished with lumpy beds, sheets that did not fit the beds, thin walls with noisy neighbors, faucets that leaked and water that did not get hot, we survived but were always happy to get back to our own bed and our home that of course has it’s own problems but is familiar to us.
I began to think about life and people and how they are like a motel. How many times have we put our trust in something or someone, they looked so good on the outside, we thought the little white cabin that was our friend would be so nice on the inside, and then when we really got to know them we found the thick smoky residue of deceit and rejection. We marry someone who has nice handsome white paint and the landscaping of good looks and then we find that they are abusive and alcoholic and all those outer appearances are just a façade to deceive and disappoint. We think that we will always look nice and be in good health and then we are given a dire medical diagnosis.
That is life! But we are just passing through. This world is not our home. It is just like a motel with the dirty rooms of disappointment, the lumpy beds of pain or ill health, the leaky faucets of loss and heartache. But we are traveling to a home, where what we see is real and eternal! The little white cabin is clean and beautiful inside, the bed is comfortable and warm, the landscaping is peaceful and calm and there is living water.
We can be safely in the familiar arms of our heavenly FATHER if we choose to go home from this motel called life on the right road!
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