The Monster Closet

There is a website that I truly love “flylady.org” whose sole mission is to help very unorganized people to become organized. I have reminders on my calendar on the areas to clean and tasks to perform, sometimes they are completed, but most often not.  This last Sunday evening, I decided to do one of my tasks, which was to clean out the bedroom closet.  Now this is usually something I usually close the door and never look at but as I surveyed the bottom of my closet with its many shoes piled high, papers galore on top, and clothes I had a burst of energy and began.  I decided to do the bottom.  I pulled out shoes – high heels, sandals, flip-flops, wedges, bags and numerous items that had fallen from the top shelf.  Fly Lady has a theory that simply states – if you have not used it in over a year, and it cannot be donated just throw it away.  I had shoes that I had not worn in 5 years and so decided they were a candidate for the trash.  I put all the summer shoes in one of the bags, and went through the papers and through over half of them away, hung up the clothes that had fallen down, rearranged the purses and shoes I would wear.  Now if you look at the bottom of my closet it is beautiful.  All the shoes are lined up next to their partners, and I got rid of at least four bags of trash. 

Every now and then, the Holy Spirit wants us to open up a closet in our lives where we have closed the door.  You know the ones, the areas in our lives where we have closed the door on unforgiveness, hurt, pain and it is easier to close the door and not look in and see the mess.  However, God is so good to us and wants us to be happy and whole in our lives and emotions.  He knows that if we do not deal with the hurt, pain, and unforgiveness in our lives we will never be free and whole.  So He gently calls us to open the doors and to drag out the things we have not dealt with, throw away the things we cannot change, place our lives in nice orderly rows and get rid of the trash.  Once we have accomplished this task we look back and see order where chaos once stood, peace where disorder raged, and we understand that God was merely helping us to climb a little higher on the mountain top.  So any closets that need cleaning – I am ready!