Today I decided to clean the basement, I decided I can not put it off any longer. The mess was making me crazy, I avoided it, and my kids were driving me crazy. The whole house seemed out of order! (which it really is) I was reminded of a phone conversation I had with a very good friend, about cleaning house. When we were trying to figure out what was wrong with me. As I was talking to her I had a revelation, that my life was like my house, a mess! (Well maybe I'm not that bad) I tend to avoid things, or get overwhelmed at how much I have to do, that everything else suffers. For example, I hate cleaning because I don't know where to start, and when I walk into every room I see how much work I need to do. The bedrooms are a mess, beds need to be made, toys picked up, clothes put away, laundry needs to be done, bathrooms need to be cleaned, the kitchen needs to be cleaned, dishes done, floors swept and mopped, living room needs to be cleaned, dusted, vacuumed, toys put away, and then you have the basement; one huge mess. In all this mess I have 5 children making messes before I can even clean them, a load of dishes before I can even finish the ones I'm doing, and clothes dirty before I can get them cleaned! It's overwhelming!!! So it's hard for me to know where to begin, because I just think it's useless and I tend to try to avoid it for as long as possible. The problem the mess causes everything else to be out of order. It cause me to not feel like I'm good enough, it drives my husband crazy, and my kids seem lost.
So I decided to clean the basement! This is huge! During all this I am struggling on how to balance all my many title's I have. How to have time with God and please him, while being the best wife, mother, friend, sister, daughter, hair stylist, and be apart of serving the church. I believe God showed me my life is a house, I have many rooms I need to take care of and attend to. One room might represent me as a wife, another a mother, a friend, a sister, a daughter, get the point. My life is just like this I want them all to be perfect, but I can't do it all at once. So the solution, Start with the basement, The foundation of the house, My relationship with God. Then the other rooms will fall into place.
It's amazing how true this is. If I take care of my relationship with God, I will be a better wife, mother, friend, sister, daughter, etc. It's also amazing how in my house when the basement is cleaned the kids play better and there is more peace in my house overall. I'm not saying that my whole house is clean, I'm just saying I'm working on one thing at a time. So right now it's my basement. I can't do it all at once, I have to go into each room at a different time, and do the job it has called me to do.
1 comment:
What a great way to look at it! If our focus is right everything else really does fall into place, it is amazing!
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