A Morning Reflection – Spring Cleaning

My marvelous Mom who went home to God last summer left behind a cabin in the mountains of North Georgia.  A few weeks ago, my wife and I made the eleven hour journey to reclaim the cabin that was Mom’s summer home for many years.  My parents purchased the cabin property on a mountain creek before they retired.  Dad named it “Bit O’ Heaven”.  It was the last place on earth he saw in this life.  Mom spent her summers there anyway for a dozen years.  When Mom closed the cabin for the winter in the fall of 2008, no one but the Lord knew she would never return to this place she loved so much.

No one had been there for three winters when my wife and I pulled into the down-hill driveway on a cool early spring evening.  The trees were still bare and the whole yard looked so strange and a bit eerie.  We had only seen the place in the summer when everything is fully grown.  The house and the yard were in need of a huge deep cleansing before anyone could hope to live there and share more of the many good times the Cyr family has enjoyed there for so many years.  That cleansing is why we were there.  After two and a half long tiring days of thorough loving care, the cabin is again ready for inhabitants.  Three winter’s worth of dust, cobwebs, leaves and branches have been cleared away.  It was a very deep and complete spring cleaning.

During all the sweeping, wiping and raking, the Lord reminded me that it is the same with our souls. This time of Lent when we prepare in prayer, fasting and giving to celebrate His sacrifice and victory over sin and death is the time to do our spiritual spring cleaning.  He reminded me that we should be cleaning regularly, daily really, and keeping short accounts with God because He is coming for us soon.  If we do not tend to our souls, then the cobwebs form in the corners and the dust settles on the empty surfaces of our souls.  Dead branches and leaves fall from the trees and clutter our spiritual path.  Then the cleansing of our souls becomes difficult and time-consuming work taking time away from the fun of praising and serving our savior.

So my brothers and sisters, let us examine our consciences each evening and turn to our merciful loving savior in confession.  Let us keep the cobwebs away.

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