when your glasses are fogged up or smudged, you clean them.
when your dirty dishes pile is bigger than your kitchen itself, you clean them.
usually, when you have no more clean underwear or socks left to be found, you inevitably have to wash them.
this past weekend has been such a weekend of lovely little tasks. simple chores. little messes to be dealt with that i’ve put off quite well all week. and stashed in this pile i found other little messes that have been put off for more than a week.
in case someone didn’t tell you, life post bubble life {after homeschool + hs + college} is…harder. i would love to say it’s easier…but it truly is harder. in bubble life-everything is at your fingertips to do. in post bubble life you have to find it.
your life is what you actually do to make it that.
if you don’t pay attention to you, to what’s important along the messy way, it’ll get dirtier and foggier.
point.
it’s just as important to clean up the interior of our lives as it is to keep the exterior clean.
it’s just easy to keep little messes inside. disorganization & chaos kinda take over. the more and more you keep going, the more and more it gets dirty.
{who likes that word, ‘dirty?’}
the take away:
it’s vital to stop, take in life. stop and realize, that’s simple & that’s it. just like when we wash the dishes-then they’re clean. when we give attention to our souls, to ourselves, to our minds, to our life we’re living…there’s beauty and distinctness there {so much easier said than done!}
start.
what are the staples?
there are few. few people, things, that haven’t changed since life has, few things that won’t change while life changes.
Jesus.
here’s to honesty.
amazingly, He doesn’t give up, doesn’t leave, doesn’t get bored, doesn’t change.
mom + dad + kara.
been through the most in my 23 years with these special peeps here. lots of ups & lots of downs. they’re my staple people. cause post bubble life, people really do come and go, but not them.
{thank the first staple!}
dan.
this was not always able to be true. we’ve lost each other too many times in the past 5 years of our relationship {rollercoaster}. 11 months since post bubble life & he’s a stronghold, he’s a staple, a necessity in keeping me sane & insane.
when you stop to see what your life looks like, is it what you want it to look like?
here’s to honesty again.
mine’s not.
how messy is it inside? how long have you been putting off your little messes? how much do you want to work on things but keep saying, eventually.
well the vicious cycle here is simple.
if we’re messy inside. if we’re foggy in our vision. if we don’t even know what we’re doing half the time with our lives…
we’re not being effective in life. we’re not being a difference. we’re not being an exclamation point.
we have purpose beyond reason, but when we don’t cultivate & clean up, we can’t even touch that purpose to be making it.
so with those little messes, make little changes. there’s no quick cleaning up of weeks, months, or years of unattended to dirty clothes and dishes.
don’t even think about feeling overwhelmed. pick a word & go with it, cause nothing good will come from impatience and overwhelmingness.
and the reason i say that here is because at first i felt so defeated, overwhelmed, done, fried, and then some when thinking about opening up old cabinets inside me to get to some serious cleaning.
so for today, here’s the words people:
realization. vacuum. beginning. dusting. simplifying. little.
and if those are too much then here’s for you people who are afraid of big words, you know who you are:
start. think. open.
