Spring Cleaning

Nature can teach us so much about how to take care of ourselves.

It’s March as I write this blog.  It came to me this morning as I was driving in to work.  Stopped for a red light I looked around.  I saw brown, dead grass littered with debris that had gathered over the winter.  I know my city, and soon teams of community volunteers will be out picking up the debris and removing it to a garbage dump.  As people we like to take care of our surroundings, not liter so that we can enjoy the beauty that nature has to offer.  A bed of beautiful budding flowers isn’t very appealing if there is garbage strewn all around and in it.  Besides being unattractive, likely the garbage is also not healthy for the garden, the flowers, and generally speaking mother nature.

My thoughts turned to me, the person.  They turned inwards to my soul, my spirit, my real self.  I thought about all the garbage and debris that I’d accumulated, not just over the winter months, but throughout all seasons and wondered about spring cleaning.  If I but even once a year, as we do for mother nature, did some spring cleaning of my soul and removed all the ingested garbage:  negative thoughts and attitudes, wow my burden would surely be lightened and my step would have a new found spring in it.

But we humans, well we don’t just allow garbage to accumulate over the winter months; we allow it to go on all year round, for every breath we take.  Yet seldom do we even think about it and the need to do some clean up; to get rid of the garbage.

Garbage in, garbage out is the saying.  Perhaps that is why my attitude becomes overly negative and my words unkind.  I cannot expel or demonstrate anything but what is in me.

It’s time for some spring cleaning of the soul.  Anyone want to join in?  Not that I am asking you to do my cleaning; only I can do that for only I know what needs to be dealt with and removed.