thresh·ing floor
In ancient times the threshing floor was used to separate the grain from the chaff in times of harvest. Picture heavy carts, oxen, and stone grinding into the floor. Imagine you are the wheat stalk being crushed and ripped apart. Don’t life’s experiences often leave us feeling like that, crushed and ground down?
thresh·ing floor
noun
:a hard surface on which grain is threshed with a flail
In ancient times the threshing floor was used to separate the grain from the chaff in times of harvest. Picture heavy carts, oxen, and stone grinding into the floor. Imagine you are the wheat stalk being crushed and ripped apart. Don’t life’s experiences often leave us feeling like that, crushed and ground down?
Three years ago I would have never thought I would be where I am today, who I am today. Life can somehow suck you in, chew you up, whip you around, smack you upside the head, and just when you think you can’t take any more spit you out and kick you across the floor on its way out. Brutal. But, and this is the important part, the beating is not the end. In my experience, short and narrow as it may be, there is beauty, more importantly; there is redemption from the threshing floor.
re·deem
verb
:To restore the honor, worth, or reputation of
:To restore the honor, worth, or reputation of
