Putting garbage in it’s place

Recently, our trash company changed the day they pick up our trash, and the containers we put it in.  My family recycles, and up until now, we have had 2 small recycling containers that have never been large enough for the amount of recycling we have.  Every week, we would always have an overflow of items that wouldn’t fit into the recycling containers…until now.  We now have a LARGE rolling cart that hold everything!  There is never a need to find another place for the garbage!  I love it!  Why am I telling you this?  Well, you see…garbage in itself isn't bad. Garbage dumped in the wrong place - that's bad.
Sometimes there's way too much garbage that gets dumped where it should never go - in the hearing, in the lives of people who have no business getting the “overflow” of our garbage as we complain about our lives.
One big problem with our complaining is that it focuses on what's frustrating us and it forgets the big picture. When we just look at the irritations and the frustrations in front of us, we lose our perspective, we blow today's little messes way out of proportion, and we forget the larger picture of the great things God's doing in our lives. We miss the big picture!
God isn't expecting us just to ignore our frustrations, or bury our frustrations. He just wants us to dump them out in the right place, which David tells us about in Psalm 142:1 , "I pour out my complaint before Him; before Him I tell my trouble." Bring your complaints and frustrations straight to God. First, He's not going to be hurt by them. He's not going to be poisoned by them like the people around you will. Secondly, He can do something about them much more than the people around you can do.
Now, we all go through some garbage in our lives, and it's true we often need a place to dump that garbage. God has offered us a wonderful place to do that - at His feet.
Be careful not to pollute the environment around you. :)