Spring Cleaning Thinking

The sun shone through the window for the first time in what seemed like months. What it revealed was startling. What before had appeared as a clean window, dusted furniture, and swept floors was a very dirty window, dust where I hadn’t noticed it before, and a not so clean floor.

Suddenly the term “spring cleaning” made sense. It is not just the feeling of starting fresh and new after the winter, but the actual awareness that cleaning needs to be done.

Light does that. It reveals.

What happens next is up to us. Either we can let the dirt remain, or we can clean it up.

Here’s where the many choices, or free will, comes into play. It is the choices of what we want to perceive or think about what is revealed, and what we choose to do about it.

If we choose to leave the dirt alone, we can either pretend that it’s not there, or acknowledge that it is present and either punish ourselves for not doing anything about it, or for the fact that it exists at all (we should have known better), or acknowledge that it exists, but it isn’t our problem, or even enjoy the fact we are leaving a mess.

If we choose to clean up the dirt we can either be grateful for the revelation that something exists we don’t want in our lives, or berate ourselves for not seeing it sooner, or be mad because we have to clean it up.

So many choices for cleaning up dirt and each choice we make determines the quality of our day, and eventually our lives.

I am sure you have already applied the symbolism of all this to a much more important issue then the dirt in the living room.

As we each practice spiritual perception, becoming increasingly aware that we are the light of God, that light – like the sun – shines on the “dirt’ in our lives, revealing what before was unseen.

Spring-cleaning our house is the same thing as spring-cleaning the house that is our consciousness.

We have the exact same choices around cleaning the ideas, past events, thoughts, and behaviors that we discover when we shine our light on our lives as we do cleaning the dirt revealed by sunshine.

Whichever choice we make absolutely determines the quality of our lives, the joy of the day, and either brings more light, or rolls in more mist that hides the light.

We are never the dirt that is revealed by the light. No matter how aggressive the temptation is to believe the loud voice that says we are, we can always rest assured that any “dirt” that the light has revealed is a lie about ourselves.

That dirt, or lie, has been there, clouding up our perceptions and once it is revealed, it can be dissolved and washed away.

Instead of dismay, let’s celebrate that the dirt has been uncovered, and bring out our tools to clean our homes and clean our perceptions.

To clean our homes we get dust clothes and cleaners. To clean our perceptions we remind ourselves of our Point Of View and hold steadfast to it.

Choosing the Point Of View that all is Love Loving Itself is the same as knowing that once we clean up the dirt in our house, what remains has always been there, just hidden by the dirt.

As we sweep away false perceptions, we bring our State of Mind into harmony with our Point of View. We have many tools we can choose to do this, from meditation, music, affirmations, 360-degree Soft Vision, walking, sitting quietly in nature, working in the garden – there are endless ways to silence the “monkey voice” and return to an awareness of the innate perfection of all that we see.

The voice within us gently guides us forward, holding us safely in Its Love while we clean.

Listening only to this voice we will find the courage and wisdom to sweep away any lie about ourselves, and to acknowledge ourselves as we are, the Light of the Divine. We remember that we are not the window through which light passes, but the light Itself.

We might even find ourselves “whistling while we work”. In the end, we will feel the delight of a clean home, and the deep joy and peace of a cleaned consciousness.

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