Howdy,
Well, we’re doing some sorting.
House sorting, room by room: and garage.
I don’t know that it’s all about 2017 being just two days away, because we try to keep junk out of our house as much as we can and toss it out after it makes it in anyway.
Regardless if it’s a New Year’s thing or not, that’s something I love about new — getting rid of the old (2 Corinthians 5:17).
With new Christmas gifts, in with the new and decluttering with the old, odd, and out-of-place.
That’s it, decluttering. Feels like we’re doing that all the time, but there’s such a freedom in giving stuff the boot out the door, out of the cluttered part of our lives, like laying “aside every weight” (Hebrews 12:1).
It sounds like work, and it is, but I tell you I get energized to do it, to clear out the clutter.
Too often I’m talking about word count, so how about today declutter count?
It’s about six or seven bags and boxes out of the condo and on its (stuff) way to Goodwill. Plus a basket and a blanket.
And a couple of ottomans (with more stuff inside them as well) set aside for a yard sale in hopes of raising a bit of money for missionaries.
On the home-front, we also ditched five loads to recycling (mostly cardboard packaging) and two garbage bags to dumpster.
Not a bad day of lightening the load.
Let’s enter 2017 spacious and smiling.
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come” (2 Corinthians 5:17).
—Billy
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