If The Walls Could Talk

"And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness but rather expose them."
Ephesians 5: 11 NKJV

Over the top of my stove hung a dangerous situation. For fifteen years this exhaust fan operated with efficiency and quietness. The former owners of my house failed to maintain this fan. The danger within the walls eluded the former homeowner. Each time I used that fan closer and closer the danger came. My uneasiness overshadowed each task. If only the walls could talk, what would the warning be? Something wasn’t correct about that fan.

It wasn’t the walls that forewarned us about a dangerous exhaust fan. The fan echoed with newly hatched sparrows. A family of sparrows discovered the warmth and security of my exhaust piping. But, that wasn’t the problem. The wall screamed a warning. It tried to forewarn each owner but none heard the warning.

It took a kitchen renovation to finally focus our attention about that hidden danger. My husband and I debated about replacing that fan with an above the stove microwave. Now, the wall screamed, "Yes, replace that fan." We finally heard the warning from the wall. After removing the old fan, the light finally dawned on the hazard. There it was the shorted electrical wires. The electrical installers missed a vital part during the installation of the range hood. The wire shorted many times leaving a tell tale brown mark on the drywall.

If the walls of our soul could talk, what would the warning be? Within many a soul a danger lurks. Listen and heed the message that your soul screams. Crack open the locked doors to your hidden agenda and pet sins. Expose the shorted wires of darkness in your spiritual life.

Copyright 2008 Patricia Charlton