Clearing the Clutter

I have never understood the term Spring cleaning. I suppose it is a time to put away the winter clothes or something to that extent, I'm not really sure. Obviously, it is a term that means an intense time of cleaning and sorting. One of the main ideas that came across me today is how often we neglect to spring clean our lives, minds etc. Sometimes, we just need to go through our life and get rid of the junk that just doesn't need to be there. Items that sit and mold in the corner's of our hearts. Many times we let these items inside the walls of our heart. Item's that stink and rot our inner man. We know they are their but we keep them anyway. Maybe someday to use them for whatever reason. So as this stuff just sits and rots in our hearts, we just sit around and look at it. Pointing at it, saying look at such and such and so forth. When in all reality, it needs to be put out of our lives and where it belongs, in a trash can. So, today, I have decided to not let certain "bags" of garbage in my heart house. Stuff I know that is nothing more than that. I have had friends who try to share and ask me to store their "bags" in my home, today, I gladly decline. Maybe it would do us some good to say no more garbage today. I have plenty to deal with on my own, that I need to throw away. So, may the Lord help us today, to get rid of the garbage and help us to enjoy one of the main purposes of life. To enjoy it with our creator. Amen

Reality Wheel

I've had this idea in my head for some time now, but I haven't really put it into any kind of format. I was actually thinking about it last night as my family and I were taking a walk in the park. I was thinking about former times when I use to have the time to be more active and in turn be more physically fit. I thought about how I wished I could dedicate more time to my physical fitness and that's when a picture popped into my head. I have a saying on my office wall that says; "Remember to keep your life in balance. Too much of anything can typically be a bad thing". I saw a picture of a wheel, and in that wheel it contained several aspects in life that were very important and necessary to my existence. I did not have them lay ed out proportionately but I had a start of what to put into the wheel. To start off, I pictured exercise as one of the proportioned pieces , being that is what started this whole process. The remainder of the pieces would be split up into vital parts of one's existance in his/her life. Such as, faith, family, friends, extra curricular activities, work etc. Now, with a proportioned wheel set, if you took a pencil and poked it directly in the middle, in a perfect world you would have a life perfectly balanced and spinning correctly. But, that is not the way our life's always spin. Let's say for instance that I am spending more time in my work section of the pie, then I would have to move my center up into the work section slightly. Thus making the wheel spin slightly off proportion. Almost like an unbalanced tire would spin. If I kept this up for a while, the other portions would have to grow smaller, thus suffocating part of my time with them. Anyway, the image is this; if we were to take our life now and try to put it into portions of the "reality wheel" how would it spin? Would it be extremely off kilter? Would the center of our wheel be in work? Our family? Our faith? Our friends? You get the point. Maybe this reality wheel while not a perfect gauge, may give us some insight to how in balance or out of balance our life really is. I have some more thinking to do on this matter, but I feel I have a good start on something. What do you think?

UNTITLED...

On the drive in this morning, many thoughts crossed my mind and I wanted to write about them, but as I came into work I wasn't so sure that is what I wanted pouring out of my fingertips. I thought about my life, when I was in my late teens. I thought about how I was such a drifter. A young man with no direction in life. I had so longed to be free to explore the world and see what it had to offer. What I found was I was a young man adrift life's ocean with no oars or paddles. I was drifting atop each wave and letting life's waves push me where it willed. Have you ever felt like that? I'd be curious to hear where some people were when they were in such a state. How old they were, what circumstances put them there and maybe some of the experiences they had. As I look back and remember that state and sense of drifting I had I recall a lonely state, unsure, I felt small in stature while the world seemed to swallow me whole. Anyway, as I look out my office window today, those feelings are all but memories. As if it were all a bad dream. Yet, I am thankful for such a time. For how would I have known how delightful life can be if I had not tasted the darker side of life? How would I have tasted the sweetness if not for the bitter? So, I would ask you reader, where are you today? Where is your life? Are you tasting the bitter side of life today? Or are you enjoying the sweetness of life's pleasantries?

I'm for real this time....

I've started several blogs in several locations, and I have decided to make this one for real. Haha. Why blog you say? Why write down your thoughts in such a format? Well, I'm just to lazy to use a pen or pencil. :) Let's just say that I can type much faster than I can write. Hopefully, the whole world wide web doesn't have some kind of massive meltdown and all my thoughts and inspiring moments go with it. Haha, oh well, I guess I suppose if my life doesn't correspond with any of my ramblings on this blasted Internet thing, than I really just wasted my time. I suppose wisdom can be written down, but if it isn't applied in life, what good has it really done? Anyway, I'm sure you will see many questions coming from my blogs. I have found that the only way to glean any kind of wisdom or answers, you must ask questions. Well enough for right now, I'll be talking with you later. Shalom.