Yes, I am starting to believe that to live a decllutered life I have to start in the kitchen! That’s where I spend most of my time: cleaning, cooking for my family, eating, doing dishes, doing laundry… again and again and again! Every single day! For weeks and months in a row!!!
That is also the area in the house that is harder to keep clean and tidy! Some bread crumbs here, a dirty knife there, a glass, a wet dishtowel, a garbage can overflowing (yuk! but let’s be honest…it happens!), the small kitchen appliances’ area completely unorganized, some soup on the floor that my baby girl decided was not good enough for her… Oh well, you get the picture! You might be thinking of your own kitchen right now and how you definitely need some help!!! I sure know I do!
And I find it so frustrating to get to the kitchen in the morning or after a day’s work and having stuff all over! It stresses me out! In the morning, after a good night’s sleep (or not so good, depending on how my baby slept!), or in the evening when I get home all the clutter there just makes me wanna run, close the door and never go in there again!
My kitchen is not like that all the time! Don’t get me wrong! I do some serious cleaning every now and then…the problem is to keep it clean and tidy every day! The same happens with the rest of the house! There is always a time when our house looks really good (especially if we’re having guests over, right?). The thing is to keep it like that over time!
That’s also what happens with our heart and mind, isn’t it? We cannot escape them! There’s no ON/OFF button! And it is so easy to get them cluttered for days, weeks and months in a row without doing some serious cleaning! Even when we go to church on Sunday or to small group during the week, we sweep that bad thought or word we said under the rug, put that rage fit in a drawer or the resentment in the refrigerator, but we do not deal with them, we do not clean our heart and mind in a way that will stay clean! And when we actually take a good look into our heart and mind we notice all the clutter we gathered over the past days and we just want to run because we do not know what to do with it! Our heart and mind, as our kitchen, need to be cleaned every day – we must not fear going in there and feel the smell of something festering!
Heart, mind and kitchen should be pleasant places for us! After all, don’t we spend a lot of time there?
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