The Parable of the Cluttered Room
I sometimes have a problem with
letting my clutter get too out of hand.
This usually happens in our bedroom because I’m rarely in it—just to
sleep and sometimes read. There are
sometimes piles of clothes precariously stacked on top of night tables, books
piled up in an unnerving manner and bags of things thrown into inconvenient
corners. This causes me a lot of stress
sometimes because I worry about hurting myself in the middle of the night when
I can’t see what’s in front of me. I
also worry that perhaps I’ll knock down a pile while maneuvering around. It causes me a lot of grief until I finally
clean the mess. Then I can finally sleep
without worrying about hurting myself in the middle of the night!
This is like our mind. If we let anything into it, thrown carelessly
about, we can’t think clearly or maneuver through our daily lives with peace
because something will pop into our heads at the most inopportune time. If we let things pile up and don’t take the
time to weed our thoughts or replace them with neat stacks of good thoughts,
our stress will continue to increase! We
should take time each and every day to put worthy thoughts into our heads and
throw away the piles of magazines from 20 years ago that we don’t want and
shouldn’t read anyway! We will be
happier if we do so!
I know that as we go through
life, we should be very careful about what we watch, listen to and participate
in. It is easy to clean a room—but hard
to clean out a precious mind that is so susceptible to unworthy images.
Related
scriptures: Psalms 94:11, Psalms
119:113, Proverbs 12:5, Isaiah 55:8-9, Romans 8:7, 1 Corinthians 2:16, 2
Corinthians 8:12, Ephesians 4:17, 1 Peter 4:1, 2 Nephi 9:39, 2 Nephi 25:29,
Mosiah 2:9, D&C 8:2, D&C 11:13, D&C 67:10, D&C 84:85.
1 comment:
I'm glad I'm not the only one with this problem. I tend to spend so much time cleaning up after my 5 young children and cleaning our 3500 sq ft home that my bedroom is always last on the list. It drives me batty! I always feel relief when it is clean. Thanks for the beautiful insight.
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