A Joyful Keeper

The weekend just flew by, and yes, we did get a lot more boxes unpacked! A few of them were easy; some others are being ignored by me…. one of these is a very large box full of clothes, that is just sitting in the hallway….. I pass it dozens of times a day, and I ignore it.

Yesterday morning we were getting ready for church. I told the kids to put new clothes on and about 10 minutes before we were going to leave I actually looked at what Matthew had chosen. His top half looked ok, but his bottom half - track suit pants with a big hole in the knee! I told him to go and put something else on. He came back and said he didn’t have anything else. So, I went to the big box in the hallway that I was ignoring.

Soon there was a huge pile on the floor next to the box. I managed to find a pair of jeans for him to wear. And then I got the kids to put the clothes all back into the box again. So that I could ignore it. Again.

Just before we came back to Australia, I went through my clothes and ruthlessly got rid of stuff. You know, the “it’s too small, but I’ll fit back in again one day” clothes. I got rid of bags full that we had carted from country to country! And yet I still have a large box in the hallway full of clothes that I am ignoring….

When we came back and before our stuff arrived, I packed our suitcases with three outfits for each of us. When they were dirty, we washed them right away. There were no piles of dirty clothes lying around the room and I knew that if they weren’t in the wash, then they were being worn or were clean in the cupboard.

It was so much more simple than that big box in the hallway, that I am ignoring, because I don’t know where to put the clothes that are stuffed in it…. there’s a lesson in here somewhere, isn’t there?!

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