Category: Clean your home – Clean your heart and soul

To give away so other people can buy it. It’s not what we have on earth but the richness in heaven that counts.

Cleaning out thing I don’t need or want to keep. I know off experience that it’s easier to do this type of cleaning when you know you are going to something smaller than you have had until now. Yet we should all do the ” move cleaning  ” more often.  And give away more often.  Because as humans we keep things,  items we inheritance from someone that meant something for us.  Yet it’s just memories. If we keep everything that have a memory we wouldn’t be able to live, I believe.

I think it’s good for us humans to clean out once in a while. To sort out what we actually need to keep or just ” following me around from one place to another. “.

As Christians we should at least try to clean out more often. It say’s a lot of whom you are, when you are and live like everyone else on the earth without the faith that we are going for something bigger and don’t need all the things we have around us, where we going. 

I’m gonna give away lots of kitchen stuff to a secondhand store. The good thing with moving is that you can go through what you have, need to keep or just give away 😊😊.

Fabric I’ll give away.

This was what my plan was to do from the 19th, but because of the cold I got, doing now 😊. Giving it away because I don’t need it anymore. But someone else will in the coming year.

I’ll give away four of my Christmas stars because I won’t need more than one or two. And I’ll give away ornaments and other Christmas decorations 😊. Maybe even my Christmas tree.

It has been my philosophy since my very first move, age 18, that every time I move I should give away so other’s can buy it from a secondhand store. Just like I have done with most of my things.

I have given 3 of those flowers away. 😊
Flower pots, at least 30 off them. Will go to a secondhand store today 😊.

And it say’s in the Bible that, it’s not what we have on earth but in heaven that counts (in easy word’s).

And it’s an awesome way to clean out your head too 😉

Clean your home – Clean your heart and soul.

 

 

Clean your home.

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“Cleaning my home for me, is when I know I can feel the sent of green soap afterwards.”

I grow up with Thursday as the cleaning day at home and it was always mom that did most of if at least when I was a child. As I grow into a teenager I started to help mom and when I moved out of home as 16 y.o. I brought this cleaning tradition with me. It was naturally for me. I have had some “thinking” about it but I kind of never changed it until for few y.o. It’s been cleaning day on Thursdays so many years of my life that it was a bit weird to suddenly clean the house/home, wash cloths an other day in the week. I have just bought a robot vacuum cleaner to safe my back from more issues and I am pleased with it so far. It is so easy that I only need to sit down, help it to no t “run” into the mat on the floor but my cat – Silver – is as skeptic to the robot “Rob” as to the more common one. Today I took the floor,  washing with green soap. That the perfect end of cleaning at home.

“Is traditions we grow up with that important? Or is it just that we realizing about those tradition’s as adults and just bring them on?”

My mom’s thinking was this, if you clean the house on a Thursday you will have it clean and nice the whole weekend and you can come home from work on the Friday knowing you don’t need to think about cleaning.

It’s nice. But when you as I work weekends that doesn’t really work. I prefer to wash a Sunday if I am free or a Monday. Most times I wash cloths one day and clean the home an other day. It works for now.  And it was during that I started to think more about this of “if we clean our home, then we need to clean our heart and mind and soul too”.

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Clean your heart and soul.

It’s not just our homes that needs to be cleaned. Our heart and soul needs it too. I realized that I have been missing to listen to worship for the last week or so, when I started my play-list on Spotify yesterday. I have been feeling emptiness inside. To fill my ears and heart with good Christian music is as much important as to have a cleaned home. In one way I am surprised that I kind of  lost track of the good things after I started the work-experience. In an other way I can understand it, because when I get home after a day or evening from the Hotel I am so exhausted that the only thing that is in my mind is to relax in-front of the television, which I do. It is only when I am free for more then two days I realizing that it is something missing. For me it is my way to clean my soul, to listen to worship or sit by the water and just clear my thoughts. It’s the best way to re-fill my soul, heart and mind with good words. It is easier for me to talk to God, to read an encouraging book or pray with Christian worship in the background. I am the girl that loves hard core and instrumentally heavy metal normally. But this year I have forced myself to listen to more common worship to see if I feel different or if God can speak to me in an other way. So far (nine months in to  it) I can’t say it’s any difference’s of what kind of Christian music I listen to.

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As a Christian I need thing that lift me up. I need a Christian fellowship where I can re-fill. To have a fellowship with Christians has become so much more important now when my week is Friday to Tuesday and not Monday to Friday. When Sunday’s isn’t a church-day in the same way as before August..

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But I found my Christian fellowship in June, when I went to Torp, Norway. I have now started to be a part of this group on a more regular basis. I can go to church every second Sunday or join the Christian fellowship group on every second Saturday’s. I will see what it will be, this Sunday (the 4th of September) it’s church-day. When it fits I even manage to join my house church too on Thursday’s. I know I need it and I want it. Since I became a Christian the Christian Fellowship is the most important then go to church on a Sunday. The worship, shearing  daily life and praying. Talk about life in a small or bigger group where I feel at home is the thing. Knowing that I have friends that will pray for me when I need it there in the group, when I am in the Hotel or have free and that I can be a part of the prayer for my friends. That’s when God can show us all his power.

A new journey has started in my Christian life, to found out what fits with work, what is the next step about my Christian fellowship and which church is mine? And I know God has a plan that fit’s my life!

I am as curious now as before the 1st of August or even more about what God has for me the rest of this year. 2016.

Do you remember to clean your heart, soul, thoughts and mind?

/Mia-Simone.