Friday is garbage pick-up day in our area. It’s one of those services that I’m really thankful for, living here in Canada, because it’s regular and efficient. It’s such a stark contrast from our Caloocan neighborhood, where garbage trucks come every two weeks or so, and you never know when. In the meantime, all your garbage bags pile up and start to stink, and the garbage man won’t even pick them up unless you hand him a P5.00 bill.
Sorting the garbage here in Toronto can be a complicated and sometimes confusing process. There are three bins provided and you have to separate your trash as they are picked up on different weeks. To the green bin go the organics and bio-degradable items. Then there’s the blue recycling bin where you throw bottles, cans, paper, plastic and everything that can be recycled. The rest go to the gray garbage bin. Some items you have to scrutinize, like certain plastics cannot be recycled. And because we are being taxed for the amount of garbage we throw out, I have become more conscious of our trash, making sure that everything goes to the right bin.
I know that, over time, I also accumulate a lot of trash in my life – bad habits, negative thoughts, resentments, grudges, hurts. And like garbage, they need to be purged on a regular basis – transform/recycle bad habits into Christian practices, negative thoughts into positive vibes, and discard completely all sin and ill feeling towards others.
I am sometimes successful but then after a few days, garbage starts accumulating again. How I wish that my self-cleaning will be as regular and efficient as the garbage truck that comes to our neighborhood every Friday.
Rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, insincerity, envy, and all slander; like newborn infants, long for pure spiritual milk so that through it you may grow into salvation, for you have tasted that the Lord is good. (1 Peter 2:1-3)
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