EARLY POISON
Last winter several trees fell along the fence row behind our house. Last Monday was a perfect day to work outside, so I took my chain saw back there and cut up the fallen trees to harvest some firewood and clean up the field for the farmer. It reached 80° that day and I was loading the firewood into my trailer wearing a T-shirt. About half-way through I realized that I was working where I had not yet sprayed for poison ivy. Some of the shoots were about knee high where I was picking up the cut wood.
There were no leaves on the vines yet, so I didn’t think it would be too worrisome. But about Wednesday I began to notice my right forearm and my left upper arm were itching. By Thursday I recognized I indeed did have poison ivy on both arms. Fortunately, there wasn’t much of the oil to transfer this early, so its a minor inconvenience, but not a trip to the Doctor’s office.
There are some things we can do to expose ourselves to bad results, like brushing our bare arms against a poison ivy vine, or intentionally going too far in a forbidden relationship, or bending the rules to get ahead. Does God promise to protect us from our own rebellion or foolish ways. I don’t think so. Mind your ways.
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