Plastic Runway

At the beginning of the week, one of my co-workers tripped on the carpet here at work. Thankfully, she did not get hurt. The carpet is so old and is coming apart at the seams. So I emailed our maintenance department and asked if there was any way this could be fixed since it is a safety hazard.

This morning we all walk into work like normal and there is like a plastic runway type thing covering the part where the carpet is coming loose. This isn’t the sturdiest of plastics. This is an extremely flimsy piece of plastic stretched over some frayed carpet. The sides curl up and the plastic isn’t secured to the floor. It’s kinda just lying there. All day we have joked about the “runway” and how it is probably still or will be a safety hazard.

A couple of weeks ago, someone came in to take measurements of the building so we could get new flooring. I’m not exactly sure when we will be getting this new flooring but I am sure that this new plastic runway of ours is only a temporary fix until the new flooring will be installed.

2 Corinthians 4:18

So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

 

That’s how the life of following Christ looks. We only see what is going on now during our lives but we can’t see the big picture. Only God knows what the big picture looks like. When we struggle and go through battles we wonder why it’s happening to us. But the key to getting through those struggles is to fight through them and know that you are going through that situation for a reason. You will come out better and you will have something better in the future even though it is hard to see it now. Somehow, this situation is just a tiny piece of the big picture.

Just like our plastic runway.

Right now, we see the runway as being a temporary fix to our frayed carpet. We don’t know what type of flooring is going to be installed but we do know that a better version is in store