This one mom was fretting that she left her vacuum cleaner out before she left. I thought:
What in the world? I'd be proud if I had gotten mine out!Those were days of acute clutter and random housecleaning.
The kid clutter is, of course, history and I have researched the cumulative effects of clutter on the soul, but housecleaning remained, until recently, a serious source of angst.
I can speak in front of hundreds of people with hardly a thought, but facing the array of chemical cleaners and how-to's (which somehow have always eluded me) invariably left me anxious and full of dread. Surely God saw my angst, but the decades passed.
I'm pretty sure I never prayed for help in housecleaning; why not? Colossians 3:17:
Let every detail in your lives--words, actions, whatever--be done in the name of the Master, Jesus, thanking God the Father every step of the way.I didn't ask for help, nor was I very thankful for the privilege of a house to clean, for a vacuum cleaner to put away.
Happily, God met me anyway. I discovered Norwex. I give him and Norwex credit for delivering me from chemical angst, don't-know-how angst, and housecleaning-is-too-hard angst.
My two close friends who are housecleaning experts have a trait in common: they wipe things all the time. They are in constant wiping motion when it comes to dirt and their home surfaces. But, though I wasn't conscious of it all these years, the chemical component must have bothered me. Now I can take their wiping component and leave the chemicals behind.
I clean my entire house with water, a few cloths, and my superhero mop (one of those cleaning friends calls it her Mercedes mop and believe me, she is a mop expert). She and my other expert housecleaning friend love these products. That is all the recommendation I need. I've moved into a new stage of baby expertise and actual joy in the process.
Colossians 3:17 also says:
Cultivate thankfulness. Let the Word of Christ --the Message--have the run of the house.You got it, God. But now I've added a new tool. My Norwex microfiber (the fiber in one cloth would stretch from western NC to Oklahoma!) has the run of the house, too. If you have an ounce of angst over cleaning chemicals or what-to-do, research my new discovery. Though we are to be thankful in all circumstances, I must admit I'm better at it in the easier times. Add housecleaning to that list.
To the mom from long ago, thanks for the prod to put my vacuum cleaner away.
To God:
Thank you for shelter to clean and deliverance from chemical cleaners. Lead me to others who would savor this discovery.For more information:
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