Get Rid of the Cans
In 2005, our family had the opportunity to visit Athens, Greece. One day, we were walking into the Metro subway system there and Rachel had a Sprite bottle in her hand. The Athens subway was very, very clean. Suddenly, a voice came over the intercom, speaking English, and asked that all trash be deposited in the appropriate trash cans. That may be why the subway system was so clean!
The New York City transit authority has decided to go the opposite direction in keeping their subway clean. In two subway stations, the authorities have removed the garbage cans! The experiment began last year. According to statistics compiled by the Metropolitan Transit Authority, workers lug out 14,000 tons of garbage a year.
But in the two stations where there are no garbage cans, there was no garbage! Or at least, the garbage is considerably less than in stations where there are garbage cans. The MTA plans to expand to eight stations this year. It will be interesting to see how things fall out.
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Marriage counselors have a term for “garbage cans” in our marriages. It’s called the “gunnysack.” A gunnysack is a burlap sack used to carry potatoes and things like that. In marriage, we can “gunnysack” our complaints and faults in one another. Donnie Hilliard, in his book Magnificent Marriage, says we often carry a gunnysack “filled with resentments, hurts, grievances, and anger at the wrongs we have suffered at the hands of others. At strategic times (usually in the heat of conflict) we reach deep into the gunnysack and pull out one or more grievances and, with a vengeance, throw them at the person with whom we are having conflict” (pg 40).
Get rid of your garbage cans – or your “gunnysack” – and you’ll find your marriage has less garbage in it. In other words, when you have a conflict or disagreement – forgive and forget as quickly as possible. Paul writes in Colossians 3:13: “bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, whoever has a complaint against anyone; just as the Lord forgave you, so also should you.”
How would you feel if God frequently brought up the sins that you thought He had forgiven long ago? Neither should we keep bringing things up when our spouse has apologized. Get rid of the cans. You’ll be glad you did. — Paul Holland
