stuff

have you ever noticed how much 'STUFF' you accumulate over the years?
I am in the midst of a deep clean in our house, but especially my room. Since I can remember i have been overrrun my clothes, and since we moved here, it has never really been sorted out or had any space for. I take over every closet, every storage space, every nook & cranny I can find and shove it with 'STUFF'. Really Stuff can be anything, from clothes, to art suplies, to projects, things I think I'll need int he future, things from my childhood, memories, blah blah blah. I think I have the tendencies to be a bit of a hoarder, that's wht clean outs like this are nessisary. Clothing seems to get dumped often. No matter how many garbage bags (yes garbage bags!) I give away to salvation army it seems 6 months later there are still more! So this time I have paired right down. I want all my things to fit in my closet and drawers. Now more extra piles that lay around the room that don't fit in the closet, or the extra 2 or 3 loads of laundry that aren't in there. All my stuff needs to fit in my space.

I had a dream a couple months back about our house. There was sooo much to this dream and has really been an amazing encouragement to Luke and I . It often comes up in my mind and God starts to show me new things about it. Lately one thing that has been coming up was a room that was for me, it represented my creativity. Though packed to the ceiling, everything had it's place. it was so well utilized. It was beautiful and organized. When moving into this house my #1 priority was organization. Well it never happened and I have kinda just been living in a 1/2 mess (especially in our room that has become the dumping zone) since. So. I wish I had a before pic of some kind but i don't. Project MY ROOM. Has commenced and I am determinded to live in a peaceful organized space and I am starting with our room. I read that if you have a peaceful space you are actually less stressed and sleep better, function better. Well that makes a ton of sense to me and ready to start living in peace. Life with a new baby is hectic enough, I need to feel like i have a place of rescue.

Ready to start Living in Peace..

Since homes represent Life, I am just loving all the symbolism in all of this deep cleaning. Just like God speaks to me in the Garden, he is speaking to me in my organizing & cleaning, and doing a big dump it in me. Pulling out all the things hiding under beds, in the back of closets and rearranging things in my house. He is cleaning, detailing, washing the walls, giving the floor a good scrub, dusting and repainting, rearranging, putting things back some in the same and some in new places. He is creating beautiful spaces in me, everything in the light, tossing the stuff and keeping the useful productive, good fruit in my life. Often when throwing things out/donating hem to salvation army, I have a second thought, do I really need this? Could i use it again? This time is feeling different, i just want it out for good never to return. I think in me I am making the same decisions. Finally throwing out things I have been holding onto, like unforgiveness or jealousy/envy. I am choosing to empty hidden boxes & live organized and in the light. I am ready to start living in peace.

Getting rid of 'stuff' feels amazing, I can't wait to finally be done and see how we both turn out.