God is so good! He even cares about the sparrows or in our case, our stained carpet. I know it’s not super spiritual and you may ask yourself how I could draw a lesson from something as seemingly inconsequential as a stained carpet, but it’s possible! I mean, to us, because we rent our home, we can’t just get away with stains. We have to fix them or get hit with huge charges when we leave. After a series of mishaps and disappointments over the past couple days, it seemed the enemy was determined to thwart our plans at saving money as we build our nursery for Caleb’s arrival. At home this evening, I decided to Google a way to remove wood stain from carpet. Assuming my search would be futile, I searched half-hearted and was surprised by the first result that showed up. It stated that using (prepare yourself) WD-40 on the carpet would remove the stains. I was incredulous as I thought to myself how silly it sounded. As stupid as it sounded I decided to try it anyway. I figured I had nothing to lose considering that I had huge black spots on my carpet! You can’t do much worse than what was already there so I sprayed a small amount of the WD-40 on a small black spot, waited for a few seconds and then rubbed at it with a white cloth. When I pulled the cloth away from the carpet, I saw nothing – that is to say the stain was gone! I laughed almost in disbelief. I called Melissa over and asked her to watch me do it to another spot in case I was just seeing things. Over the course of the next several minutes we were laughing hysterically and ended up video taping ourselves removing a stain as we would giggle and spray a bit of WD-40 on a black stain, rub it out, and then use a great cleaner called Folex that you can find at Wal-Mart to remove the WD-40 from the carpet. In less than 20 minutes, we had removed half of the stains caused by my accident in “Stains and Other Mishaps“. (Much better than losing our deposit on the rental or spending hundreds to have it cleaned professionally!)  Below you’ll find our video of removing the stains but before you watch that, listen to how I believe God works in our lives.

See, so often I find myself getting discouraged at things that are seemingly outside my control. Things that I don’t even consider to take to the Lord in prayer because I feel they are too inconsequential to Him. But I am reminded, as I mentioned earlier, of Matthew 10:29-31 (NLT) when Jesus said, “…not a single sparrow can fall to the ground without your Father knowing it. And the very hairs on your head are all numbered. So don’t be afraid; you are more valuable to God than a whole flock of sparrows.” And I realized yet again that God was reminding me that his love for me is so great that he actually does care about the “little” things like stained carpet and some of our other misadventures! So don’t ever believe that God doesn’t care about the little things because he does. He watches out for us in so many ways. His love is all encompassing, his concern and care for us is infinite, and he always works the best for those who love him and are called according to His purpose.

Love you all, enjoy the little How-to!