To keep a clean house, regular sweeping is usually required. Dust accumulates. Dirt gets tracked in by shoes from outside. Stuff happens!
The same rule applies to keeping a clean mental house. A regular sweeping is required!
To stay healthy and happy, it’s wise to keep unwanted mental debris from piling up in consciousness.
Debris like resentment, animosity, self-righteous condemnation, apathy, grumpiness, complaint, selfishness, and their kin, are refuse of mortal mind that does us no good. If they pile up in thought, life can start to feel miserable.
Do yourself a grand favor. Clean house!!
Pray. Sincerely.
Fill up with love and spiritual truth. Let spiritual ideas coming from divine Mind sweep away the debris of mortal mind and put you into the Mind of Christ which is filled with healthy, heavenly thoughts and attitudes.
Live true to who you are as a child of God. Live spiritually minded!
You’ll be much happier.
Thank you Evan. Here’s an article by Peter Ross on the topic of uncluttering thought. You can listen to the article too
Clear out the clutter
https://sentinel.christianscience.com/shared/view/1fuqfub9jk4?s=e
Here’s another article that brings out how just a simple understanding of truth can remove any clutter of discord if we are just willing to trust truth.
REMOVING THE MENTAL CLUTTER
BY PAUL GUTELIUS
https://journal.christianscience.com/shared/view/tmym9kk0m2?s
Thank you Evan. It’s made me think of the so-called annual “Spring Clean”. How much more fun to have the daily Spring Clean! Jump to it!!
The Daily Spring Clean – wonderful Ken. I will jump to it now – I will let the Daily Lift lift me up to make the jump!! Thank you Evan, as ever, for another
inspiring lift – “uncluttered by human hypotheses,
and divinely authorised” (as is the Lesson Sermon)
Thanks Maggie, for mentioning Mrs. Eddy’s statement about the lesson-sermon, “… a sermon undivorced from truth, uncontaminated and unfettered by human hypotheses, and divinely authorized.” I love the idea that we too, in our consciousness, can be “undivorced from Truth,” meaning we’re divinely united with Truth.
I have issues with too many belongings or clutter in my physical home. I’ve been working recently with this concept of physical home as the expression of mental home (consciousness) so today’s message is very helpful.
Evan thanks for the photo of the spotless, orderly, beautiful kitchen. It is a picture of my clean, clear Mind. And also for, “Do yourself a grand favor. Clean house!! Pray. Sincerely.”
Found this short testimony from CS Journal, January 2019 “Undivorced From Truth” By Robert Witney.
https://journal.christianscience.com/issues/2019/1/137-01/undivorced-from-truth
It opened fully for me with no subscription, but not sure if it will open for everyone.
All I can say is “Two Thumbs Up”. 🙂 🙂
PS: Is it OK if I use a vacuum cleaner? 🙂
Sorry, Roger, but there are no vacuums in the divine Mind!
I had been feeling uncomfortable about how often I need to sweep my mental house. Your comments relieved the pressure I was putting on myself as to why so much was accumulating daily. Instead, I just need to keep sweeping just as I physically keep my house cleared each day. Thank you.
Thank you Evan for another great healing message!
Thank you!
I live in a HOUSE that expresses
Harmony | Orderliness | Unity | Spirituality | Expectation of Good
Thank you Mark! That is the nicest House/Home, God’s House. In which we all live forever, in the consciousness of divine LOVE! ♡
Well put, Mark. Thank you for your sharing.
I want to thank Robert H. for his 2 articles on removing clutter. Very helpful and thought provoking.
I also want to thank Evan for his thoughtful and caring guidance that helps us to “remove clutter” mentally every day.
We are all so blessed by this continuous “Daily bread”.
Thank you so very much, Evan and all!! This is a wonderful reminder of
keeping our mental house clean as well as sweeping whatever accumulates
in our homes that is disruptive of how we would like our surroundings to be.
Like opening windows to lovely fresh air in the Spring, letting in purity that
would replace the stagnant, stuffiness of mortality that would try to stifle
our joy, we replace the build up of inharmony, with the clean mental house
of happiness, which is all we really want and need to keep thought peaceful.
I sure needed this!! Thank you, Evan ❤️
PS LOL re vacuum idea
PPS. Love the “House” acrostic poem
It came to mind that one step in the decluttering process may require willingness to part with clutter…. “to leave the old for the new”
Thank you Evan.