Eunice  By Sheila Alexander

How did I feel?
I felt all throwed away
Like an old shoe in the rain
Or a chicken heart in a butcher’s hand.
Was how I felt
And blue as a week of Mondays.

“I felt” she said,
“Shades blacker than my skin,
Like there wasn’t no place low enough
To hide my feelings in

“It wasn’t” she said
“The jail I was in
But the world I was out of
Made me cry.
Not that I was so wrong
But nobody else was right.
Is why.”

“You don’t know
What a bad time is
Girl, you living child’s play
Til they sweep you under the rug
And you feel all throwed away.”

Have you ever felt like garbage—all used up, swept under a rug or thrown out and left on a pile to rot? Have you ever treated someone else like garbage? I think I have run the gamut of human emotion trying to come to terms with my own self-worth or lack of it. I also think I have done more than my fair share making others feel worthless or unworthy. What does that say about me? What does that make you think about me?

This was a theme shared over a year ago by friends from a church serving in the Dominican Republic. Little did any of us know how God would continue using “garbage” to help us see the beauty of His message to make all things new.

May this season be the reminder you need that, no matter what you have done, no matter how you have been treated, no matter how badly you have treated others, no matter what anyone says about you, no matter how often you have failed, or how small, forgotten or unworthy you have felt, you are not now nor will you ever be “garbage.”

Kingdom Compost from Andrew Hood on Vimeo.

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