The Smell of Money

We got the house we've been trying to buy yesterday and today I spent the day trying to get the carpet out. Which, by the way, was no easy task. The main section of the house is a manufactured home and when they make manufactured homes they make the floor then lay all the carpet then build the walls on top of that. It makes it easier and quicker to lay the carpet that way. Unfortunately, that makes it extremely difficult to get the carpet out since you have to cut it all out along the edges. If that weren't difficult enough in two of the bedrooms there is a shelving unit that goes all the way down to about 6 inches above the floor. In order to cut that edge of the carpet I had to lay on my stomach and reach under there with a blade. Oh, did I mention that the previous owners owned at least one dog and most likely several and I'm not real sure they were potty trained real well. Yeah, that's how my day went. The carpet guy that I had come out said that "was the smell of money" since a house like that was ripe for a rehab to make money on because not too many people will buy a house that smells like that because they can't get beyond the smell to see the true value of the house. With a little clean up, paint, new carpet and lots of bleach to get rid of the smell a house like that will begin to shine and sell for thousands more than we paid for it. This all got me thinking tonight that isn't that what it's like for many people in our world. They smell bad, they look bad, they are beat up and because of it, many many people pass them by because they can't see the true value in those people. If we could only take the time to help people who are in these situations then we could truly see the value that God places on them. It's amazing what a little paint can do for a house, but that's nothing for what a little love can do for a person.
Blessings