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I was attending a conference in Harrogate with my minister. He’d arranged for us to stay with a couple he knew. We’d arrived got settled in, gone to the first seminar, and returned for some food. Our hosts were out so we made ourselves comfortable, maybe too comfortable. As when I attended the little boys room and sat down the seat, as the photo shows, cracked. Oh dear was probably not what I thought as the enormity of the situation dawned on me, here I was in a strangers house and I’d just desecrated the throne room. What should I do? Put the seat down and pretend I hadn’t been in there? Or own up to an embarrassing faux pas?Well I decided honesty was the best policy and confessed to my hosts who found the whole thing very amusing! I guess ultimately for me I had to choose between saving face or being honest.
There are a lot of things that I have done in my life that embarrass me, some intentional some not, but unless I can bring them into the light they will always exhibit some sort of hold over me. When my image is more important to me than my relationship with God, then we have a problem.
Ephesians 5:8-13 ‘For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth) and find out what pleases the Lord. Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. It is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret. But everything exposed by the light becomes visible – and everything that is illuminated becomes a light.’
Ebs and Flows... 
Jessie Clemence said:
Ha! I love the photo to match. Excellent.
snowgood said:
Two thoughts here.
One from my childhood. My accident prone cousin David came to see my Grandmother wand was fascinated by the ancient toilet, high level cistern and chain.
He’d always admired Tarzan.
Guess where his feet ended up?
And then recently when we bought our new home Joe had to meet the Developer who gave him a guided tour of our new home.
When he explained the toilets he said this;
“The small button is for No.2s, the big button is for No.1s, and in extreme cases you can obtain extra thrust by depressing both buttons at the same time.
I’ve started telling people this, because so many people have been sending me photos to illustrate their problem.”
Thanks for angling your camera in such a way we were spared too much detail!