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Overwhelm or Abundance?
“I come to You weak and weary—on the verge of feeling overwhelmed. It’s comforting to know that You are perfectly aware of the depth and breadth of my difficulties. Nothing is hidden from You.” – Jesus Listens, March 25th Anyone else struggling to stuff the demands of the day into the twenty-four measly hours we’re given, or is it just me? The busyness of the last year of my life has bordered on ludicrous, even for someone like me whose self-satisfaction is directly linked to the fullness of my schedule. But it’s time to admit that I have officially reached capacity. The fever pitch began rising late last summer when my family moved houses during a weekend between the disability summer camp sessions we host every year in a remote corner of Alabama. (I think I once read that moving houses i...
3 Ways to Clear Your “Soul Clutter”
“Your capacity to experience Me is increasing throughMy removal of debris and clutter from your heart.” – Jesus Calling, April 3 There is a living home within you. Whether stately and beautiful, expansive and serene, or dilapidated and in disrepair, cluttered and chaotic—it’s often hard to detect your own setting for lack of visibility. It’s actually quite rare that someone doesn’t have what I call soul clutter—that white noise of other’s opinions, stories we tell ourselves to cope, lies we’ve believed or agreed with, unregulated emotions, or pain that has become paralyzing. It’s also quite difficult to deal with the resulting chaos because we either cannot map a way beyond the clutter or we are too afraid to journey into the thick of it. Soul Clutter This internal clutter takes its toll o...
