A Time for Everything

I've memorized last week's Bible verse (Proverbs 4:25) and added the following words (in caps) to my post-its: spiritual health, physical health, mental health, relational health, environmental health, and calling. These are all areas that I want to 'fix my eyes on' this year - not that there's anything wrong with my mental health, just to clarify! It's just that all of these areas are interconnected I think.


The verses I'm concentrating on this week are Ecclesiastes 3:1 and 6, which say

 For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven... A time to search and a time to quit searching. A time to keep and a time to throw away (NLT)

Like last week's verse, this one encourages focus. There is a time and season for everything. Key to my goal of decluttering is the point that there is a "time to keep and a time to throw away." I need to decide which things to hang onto - those that have meaning, value (usefulness) and beauty, and which things to disperse - those that take up space but give nothing back. You're going to get tired of hearing me say, "In The Happiness Project, Gretchen Rubin says..." but in that book, she says, "If you can't find something, clean up." You have no idea how often I've found that to be true. My goal now is to clean things up and have a place for everything, so I don't spend so much of my life looking for things that are missing.  As I said in Monday's post, "time is precious - don't waste it." And as this week's verse states, there is "a time to search and a time to quit searching."