spring cleaning
| In the last 16+ years or so, I have come home a handful of times to a living room that has been rearranged. Lara gets in one of those moods and wants to spice things up a bit. I don't mind at all. At the same time, I usually feel bad that I wasn't around to help muscle the couch and tables around ... It's amazing how just moving stuff around can make life feel we've accomplished something. It's amazing how just moving stuff around can make life feel fresh and renewing. It's amazing how de-cluttering can free us to see the room for what it is and actually enjoy being in it rather than just existing in it in the midst of the stuff that ends up in the corners and under the end tables. It's funny how piles of magazines, newspapers and books can become "furniture". We also recently went through our closets and cleaned out the stuff that was just taking up space. What a difference! Last weekend, Lara cleaned out the storage room at the house. You know the room. The one with the water heater, sump pump and furnace in it along with a life-time full of boxes full of yearbooks, board games, bed frame parts, and misc. electronic pieces and tons of empty "original" boxes from a stereo I bought in 1993 that must be serving some purpose. |
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| There's also the three boxes full of cassettes that I will surely do something with one day ... Lara spent several hours cleaning it out and installing some shelving we picked up at Lowes. It looks amazing! We were even able to stuff the ginourmous piece of exercise equipment that we bought two years ago and used 5 times that has been sitting in the middle of our family room in there too. I did that in my office yesterday morning. All I did was move a chair and a credenza and add a tiny table. I also decluttered tons of "stuff" that has just accumulated in piles on my book shelves. And you know what? The place feels like a new office! Our 13 year-old was actually inspired to move her room around a bit too. Can't wait to see her clean room when I get home. Call it spring-cleaning if you like. I'm convinced the same idea applies to our priorities in life. Sometimes our top-ten list of important things to do can be reshuffled; reprioritized and de-cluttered. And suddenly the rut that our lives can get in to can be renewed. Can I encouraged you to intentionally de-clutter and remove some of the things in your life that are just taking up space yet "seem" important. Can I encourage you to move prayer and time with God in His Word into the number one slot? This critical placement anchors your life and orients your day; regardless of what else is going on. Your day will be that much sweeter. By de-cluttering your life and making God the priority, you will be encouraged and renewed. | |
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