Cleaning out your closet.
What is cluttering your life, time, and mind?
Clutter is toxic. I came to this realization as I hiked up the mountain in my neighborhood through the beautiful eucalyptus trees while inhaling the clean brisk mountain air deeply into my lungs. I felt alive and close to God versus sorting through 500 CDs standing while on a coat-hanger in my small storage closet this morning looking for a song that I can’t get out of my head. (Yes, I need an Ipod.) Searching for Neil Young’s Rust Never Sleeps reminded me of how easily our lives become cluttered with crap we don’t need.
Is your life cluttered with crap you don’t need?
I don’t know about you,
but I hate clutter.
I like blank spaces on my calendar.
Clutter is like unwanted echoes that interfere with the observation of signals on a radar screen. Clutter means to fill a space in a disorderly way. Sometimes we fill our days in a disorderly way; we clutter our days with needless activities and relationships. Then we meet with the unwanted echoes that interfere with real life.
Like CDs, we build a collection of activities that only take-up space in our lives and suck the oxygen from the air we breathe. Like a closet or a garage full of "stuff", we fill our lives with "stuff" that only ends up suffocating us.
Yet rarely do we stop and ask our selves what no longer serves us. Relationaships? Habits? Addictions? Why are we so often afraid to let go and clean out our closets? It is amazing what we hold onto and attempt to possess actually take our lives from us.
What is suffocating you?
Like the old flannel shirt and and a pair of Doc Martens that is a size too small, maybe it is time to let some things go. Get rid of what clutters my life. Clean out the closet of my life.
To create space in my head
and my heart
and my life
So that I can breathe.
How’s your breath?
4 Comments:
You keep reading what's on my mind and heart, Rick, and I'm enjoying every word of it.
For physical clutter, one book I really enjoyed was Clearing Your Clutter with Feng Shui by Karen Kingston. What's really sold me there is simply decluttering my stuff and discovering how much more energy I have!
Decluttering the mind and heart is so much more important, though, and I think it's rare to find people (especially among Christendom) who takes the time to clear the cobwebs out of the corner of their minds. It's been such a freeing experience, and it's great to be able to genuinely know what I think, feel, and believe.
As always, great stuff.
your last question was *how's your breath?*
if you could have only heard me sigh...
My life is simple and I like it that way. Okay, I do have about 150 books and 200 CD's, but other than that my material possesions are a minimum of meaningfull memorbilla and mementos :)
Is my mind clear? My heart? My conscious? Today I would have to say no. But thanks to your post I am encouraged to spend time sorting my thoughts, calming my heart and giving my conscious some grace and understanding.
Thanks, as always, a great read.
(GASPING)
what kat said.
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