MAN'S WAY, HIDE IT.

After removing a large trash pile from the hill side it left an open area vulnerable

to erosion.  Something needed to be done to keep the soil from ending up in

the ravine.

It seemed logical to use what was at hand.  That is, several dead trees and some

of the trash pile that would make a suitable trash line forming a small 

terrace.

On the uphill side of the tree trunk (Right side.) is the trash line.  You don't see the trash

because I did not like the looks of the trash.  So, I buried it under leaves.

But the trash is still there.

Another terrace.  The same hill side, a little further up.  And - more buried trash.

 (On the left side this time.) This time buried under mostly decayed wood and dirt. 

But the trash is still there. 

That is the way mankind does it.  If we don't like the looks of it - or want other

people to see it, we hide it, or try to.

It has been that way from the beginning of time.  Our first ancestors sinned

and tried to hide it by sewing fig leaves together for clothes.

It did not work.  They knew and God knew.

Then their kid Cane killed his brother Able and tried to hide it by burying his

brother.  It did not work.  He knew and God knew.

We try to hide our sins, mistakes, short coming etc.  But they and/or

their effects are still there.

BUT GOOD NEWS.

God has another way.

"If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves,

and there is no truth in us.

But if we confess our sins to God,

he will keep his promise and do what is right:

he will forgive us our sins and 

PURIFY

us from all our wrongdoing.

If we say that we have not sinned, we make a liar

out of God, and his word is not in us."

(1 John 1:8-10 GNB)

Pure, clean, gone.

Another place it says,

"As far as the east is from the west,

so far does he remove our 

sins from us."

(Psalms 103:12 GNB)