It’s spring cleaning time. The traditional time to air out a house long closed while winter brought bitter cold and snow. Things that are closed up for long become stuffy and even unhealthy.
Including lives. Including churches.
It’s time for a renewal. Maybe even coinciding with Easter–the celebration of the ultimate renewal, the resurrection of Jesus.
Maybe this is a good time to take a look at yourself. What clutter has accumulated around us and in us. Maybe it is some accumulated “stuff” that just occupies space. Adding nothing. It felt good when we bought it. But…time to give it away or send to the trach.
Maybe the accumulated stuff lies in hates/aches, cares/tears. Or maybe unhealthy relationships whose toxicity is slowly killing our energy, desire, focus.
The power we have to improve our lives starts with eliminating, as opposed to accumulating.
Clear out our personal physical space
- Toss stuff
- Clear clutter
- Clean everything
Clean out the body
- Weed out distressing habits
- Weed out distressing individuals
- Find friends who are energetic, positive
- Drink more water
- Eat healthy foods in moderate quantities
Calm the soul
- Quiet the mind through prayer and meditation
- Put worries and negative thinking behind
- Focus on service to others, less focus on self
It all starts with a quiet mind, which lets us begin to achieve focus. Then we can find the important things in life.
“Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm,” said Robert Louis Stevenson
Tags: awareness, calm, health, meditation, simplicity
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