Every once in a while it’s good to clean out your backpack, your purse, your brief case, your computer bag… We carry around a lot of junk we don’t need, stuff that weighs us down and complicates our lives… These days, even Mother Nature is doing some fall cleaning: the strength of her wind stripping leaves from tree branches…
Help me rummage through my heart,
Lord,
and do a little fall cleaning…
Lord,
and do a little fall cleaning…
Help me sort out the good stuff from the junk,
the « keepers » from the trash…
Help me drop what
weighs me down
weighs me down
and over-complicates my life…
Help me pitch what I don’t need,
all that clutters up my way…
all that clutters up my way…
Help me let go what steals my joy
and burdens me with worry…
Help me lose what keeps my heart from yours
and clear a space for grace to make its home…
Teach me, Lord, again and again and again to
simplify, simplify, simplify!
Help me rummage through my heart,
Lord,
and do a little fall cleaning…
Lord,
and do a little fall cleaning…
Amen.
