Spring Cleaning

This week's weather is bringing highs in the 70's!! It feels like spring has sprung and I am feeling excited about that! Every year around this time,I start to get the urge to spring clean. This week I attacked our closet. It had been about a year since it had been cleaned out and to say it was a disaster is probably an understatement. I am one of the messiest people you will ever meet, besides my husband, and when you put the two of us together, you get an gigantic disaster! Our closet was in a horrible state between crap thrown all over the floor and being full of clothes that we absolutely never wear. Yesterday, I dove in and halfway through was having chest pains from the anxiety of being overwhelmed with mess. But, several hours later, with 3 trash bags full of clothes and shoes that Corey and I never wear or that don't fit anymore, I stood back and looked at the organization that had come to be. It had taken a lot of effort but the end result was so incredibly worth it.
I think our lives can be so similar to this. We allow junk to pile up and before we know it, our lives are full of mess. We want to clean it up, but we also know the effort it is going to take to even get started. Or maybe, we get halfway through cleaning our lives up but get so overwhelmed that we just give up right then and there.
This month, our church is doing a study called One Month To Live. The messages are on this and our small groups are doing group studies on this as well. It talks a lot about priorities and what is really important. And one of the ways we can get down to what is really important in our lives and in our walk with the Lord is to start to simplify our lives, to re-prioritize, to de-clutter. It's time to start some spring cleaning in our lives. The good news is, we don't have to do it all by ourselves. If we pray and ask God for help, He will help us. He has promised us that in His Word.

Psalm 51:7 Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

It may be painful and overwhelming to evaluate our lives and to make changes, but the end result is always worth it and it brings peace that is beyond imagination.