Little Boxes - An Exchange Program

Pete Seeger's classic social commentary on the dreaded sameness that society forces us into always gets me thinking - I suppose thats what social commentaries are supposed to do. 

Its fair to say that we all live in boxes. Physically we live in some sort of box (a home, a car, or a...box)

Emotionally we live in boxes. Relationally we live in boxes. The former is a physical construction. The latter are abstract constructs that differ for every individual that has ever lived. 

On a normal day some of us are more aware of our boxes than others. But on days of disaster and trial we all gain a heightened sense of our boxes. Every person arrives at the day when their box gets damaged, ripped, broken. 

And while the first thought on that day may be to throw out the box or cover the holes with a picture frame  I think there is a better alternative. 

The box exchange program. 

This is where you exchange your box for a new box. This is where you give the broken box over to the Boxmaker and He gives you a new box to live in. 

There is only one catch. You must live in the box as the Boxmaker deconstructs your old box and builds the brand new one. You have to live through the whole renovation. You have to witness it all in real time. Brick by living brick.

And you can choose to work with or against the Boxmaker. You can follow His design or you can try to make Him work your design and plans. One option gives you a newly designed professionally built box. The other gives you an amateur build quality that will need constant work until it can't be repaired any more. 

It is much more efficient - and perhaps less costly to allow the Boxmaker his way with your soul...um, I mean box. Its much better, trust me.