This morning I found lessons in comparing the importance of keeping a clean thought to keeping a clean kitchen.
I asked, “Why do good cooks keep a clean kitchen?” And answered, “Because they don’t want the food they prepare to be spoiled.”
The human consciousness is like a kitchen environment.
An individual may have the know-how to do great works, but if there are spoilers in the mental environment in which he thinks, the chances of a notable outcome are diminished.
What are the spoilers? They are anger, resentment, ire, grumpiness, selfishness, lack of commitment, distraction, pride and their associates. These negatives kill the leaven, spoil the meat and sour the drink.
We need to keep a clean thought just like we need to keep a clean kitchen.
We can have the best of intentions, but if the mental environment we work in is filled with foreign agents working against out best efforts, the final outcome is in doubt and difficult to achieve.
Before embarking on a major project or prayer, it’s healthy to start with a good scrub-down of thought to clean up the mental premises in which you work. Foreign elements need to be purged, thoughts not coming from God eliminated, and all negative attitudes dumped into the garbage can of no return.Keep a clean kitchen today—a clean mental environment! And the tasks you perform in that workspace will turn out the best you could hope for.
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Great analogy, Evan! I always enjoy your posts. Thanks for all of your good work! 🙂
I love this analogy of the clean kitchen and a clean consciousness. Right now I’m very inspired to do a thorough cleaning in both places!
It is so evident to a homemaker the correlation between a mental housecleaning and an outward action of cleaning, ordering, tidying, And the forward progress of new projects, adding beauty, or moving out to the garden, or deeper into the work, as the result of spiritualizing thought.
Here in a warmer climate, we are compelled to keep clean or we get visits from pests.
Order is necessary. You can’t prepare a full meal if you haven’t checked supplies in advance. You have to clear the decks of the past, before you have free range in the next meal. You have to have your tools clean, and in their right place, for everything to go harmoniously. Happy Thanksgiving
This is an interesting post. I have never looked at the ideas like the foreign laden and spores as having power- dirty kitchen as contagion. When visiting various countries I never had the mortal thought of power in all the beliefs when visiting homes.
It is good to keep our kitchen clean because it nice to be in a organized kitchen that brings joy and beauty when creating someting good.
I never bothered with entertaining the thoughts of food left out accidently left out or the spinich and peanut scare.