I know it’s been a few weeks since I’ve posted. I haven’t disappeared, just re-organizing my house to make some space for an office so I can work without distraction. It has been a major project as I come from a family of hoarders. However, I’m learning to let go of the clutter. Though the room is not quite tidied yet, I finally have my desk and computer set up.

I have a cousin who moves house regularly and I was commenting how hard it would be to pack everything up so often. She told me that it is actually much better to move often because you don’t have time to collect stuff that you don’t need. You learn to keep only the essentials. “A rolling stone gathers no moss” as the proverb goes.

Clutter actually impedes a journey. Now there’s a thought. Generally speaking, the natural comes before the spiritual so perhaps as I learn to unclutter my physical life, my ‘spiritual clutter’ will also be dealt with?

Paul wrote to the Philippians:
Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Philippians 3:13-14

Let’s see – forgetting those things in the past – that usually means the things I’ve repented of and been forgiven for. It’s a very good feeling to be forgiven by God. It’s like He says, “It’s over and done! When you repent, I forgive. Now let’s keep walking.”

That has to be one of the best things about this journey – God’s precious forgiveness.