It's amazing what a little cleaning can do

So today, my workload was small.  (This happens like twice a year, I think).  I decided to take the opportunity to do a big organization project on my office.  It included ridding myself of lots of stuff that people "give" me to put in my office for some reason or another, filing that gets backed up for long stretches of the year, and to get ahead on other things that usually pile up.

I do not claim to be an organized person.  There is usually a method to my madness but to the common, naked eye -- I am a disorganized mess.  (hmm.... that could fit in other ways I think).

The one thing I realized is going through stuff in my office, helps me to walk down memory lane.  I went through some CDs both music and computer and remembered events and recalled experiences from concerts and pictures.  I have one drawer that holds photos for an extended period of time.  I got the opportunity to go through some of them and get rid of duplicates.  I laughed at things gone by.

It also helped me to find or re-remember things that I needed to look at starting.  I have been collecting McDonalds kid toys all year to start a box for Bible Studies.  I had forgotten about them.

It's alot like the noise we have in our life really.  All the stuff we accumulate, all the projects that go unfinished, all the filing that never gets done take us from our God time.  The physical noise is just as bad as the noises we let in our head really.

It was fun going through and decluttering the office today.  It is not done but at least I can concentrate on the tasks at hand instead of worrying about all the stuff that is making my office unbearable.

Dear God, as we wait, watch and prepare in this Advent Season help us to remember that while setting our hearts and minds on you we must get rid of all the extraneous junk that takes us from you, even the physical stuff.

AMEN