 I have been spending several lunchtimes a month volunteering at Anchor House, Inc., at Port Manatee. The port is a fascinating place with ships of all sorts docking to unload their cargo. My favorite is what Alan calls bulk product. Bulk products are things like sand, gravel, concrete, fly ash (black snow) and who knows what carried loose in the hold of the ship and unloaded onto the long conveyor or into hoppers to be dropped into dump trucks. As best I can tell, most of these products are stored in piles on port property until the importer sends vehicles to carry it away. The piles are several shades of gray or tan. Some are flat topped and covered with huge tarps to protect the product from wind and rain. My absolute favorite is the bright yellow pile of sulfur. Actually, the pile is more like a collection of yellow pyramids. Equally fascinating was when sulfur was removed the largest pyramid and the pile resembled a yellow El Capitan! How alike the piles of bulk product are on Port Manatee; and yet how unique each on is. And how different they look after the work of their owner. It reminds me of people – how alike we are and how we are uniquely made in the image of God (Gen 1:26) and how different we are when we have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. (Col. 3:10). I pray daily I am open to the work of my owner in my life to transform me the image of His Son! Update October 07.2021. The pile of sulfur has been completely removed from the lot at Port Manatee. The plot is so clean it might have been vacuumed!  |
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