The Bible says, every wise woman buildeth her house, but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands. Christian Homemaker, for the next five minutes, let Bennett Peters-Jones share with you some spiritual helps for building rather than battering your home. Here now is Sunshine on the Soaked Suds. Gardening has never been one of my strong points. I've told you regular listeners before that I have a gangrene thumb. Nevertheless, a couple of months ago I had an opportunity to help my husband transplant some holly. In those few hours of gardening, God planted a flowering shrub in my heart. Bob and I happily undertook our little gardening project. It was to transplant several holly plants. We had bought them as small, tender, young plants. They had been grown to that certain point in little black plastic buckets. Our project was to plant them in rows in the ground. Now, the process was not all that challenging. Actually, it was quite simple. All we had to do was remove the pot and put the plant in the ground. But in removing the plant from the pot, we found that the original dirt clung to the roots in tight, pot-formed clumps. It still looked like a pot was on the thing. We had to then shake off the original earth. Why? Well, because the experts had made it clear to us that if we didn't, that plant would die. Because that tightly packed original earth would prevent the roots from going into the new earth into which we were trying to transplant the plants. But we knew this danger, not just through the advice from experts. The truth had also been proven to us earlier as we had attempted to grow some holly. Every one of those poor little plants had turned up their toes and died because we hadn't shaken off the original earth. That Saturday morning gave me some transplanting principles for my life. You and I live in a mobile society. Very few of us remain in our home area or spend many years anywhere really. Now that transplanting means special pressures and problems for us women. We who are so clearly nesters by nature. If we're going to be successfully transplanted, there are going to be some demands made. Just as in our Holly experience that morning, there's the necessity of shaking off the original earth. The original earth of yearning backwards for the circumstances with which we were so familiar, the people we so loved. We mustn't unfavorably compare this present Earth spot to the one that we knew earlier. And you know, too, this applies not only to physical placement, but also to times of life. We have to shake off the original Earth. Why? Well, if we don't, we'll never take root, thrive, flower, or bear fruit for the Lord. You know, the Apostle Paul addressed this matter of shaking off the original earth in Philippians 3, 13, in a simple but powerful phrase, forgetting those things that are behind. You've heard Sunshine on the Soap Suds with Bennett Peters Jones, Christian homemaker and author of Beauty and the Best. Write to Mrs. Jones at Sunshine, Bob Jones University, Greenville, South Carolina, 29614.