Sweeping the Floor and Your Mind

Getting rid of the trash and dirt

Every single time I sweep my floors, I think, “Didn’t I just do this?” Every single time there is a pile of dirt, crumbs, and dust that needs to be swept away. And, every single time it always amazes me how much accumulates in just a short time. However, with four small kids, a large dog, and two adults in the house, there seems to always be something! I know many of you can relate. It truly is a never-ending job. It is, nevertheless, a necessary one.

I’ve come to realize how much the floors in my house are like my mind. It seems as though there is always a “crumb or piece of dirt” that needs to be “swept away” in my mind as well. So many of us, myself included, let the world bombard us with all the negative that is going on, that we forget that those negative thoughts accumulate just like the dirt on our floors. Just like with floors, we must clean up our minds and thought life as well.

When the floors in our house are dirty, we must do something to clean them. Our minds are the same. When we have a negative thought life, we must change what we are doing to get rid of it.

Renewing your mind is another way of saying clean it up. We have to be on the offensive, not the defensive when it comes to what we put into our brains. Often times it is so easy to let whatever thought that enters into your mind to stay to be dwelled on. This is a very dangerous thing to do.

This is when the proverbial rabbit hole shows up and just like Alice in Wonderland, you fall into that dark place. Like the quote above states, your mind will not remain empty. You have actively fill it with what is good, right, and uplifting. This means taking action.

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