Swedes have a word — döstädning — for the cleaning you do so that when you die, your children don’t have to. Jesus suggests we all do this cleaning.
When a house is put on the market, many real estate agents bring in stagers. These stagers begin their work by clearing the stage.
And how do they do this? They walk around your house and point at things — end tables, rugs and vases — and they say, “Edit. Edit. Edit.”
What they mean is, “Delete.” Get rid of it.
John Kelly and his wife have been going through some deletions themselves. Writing in The Washington Post (February 25, 2018), Kelly says, “I’m in the ‘out of sight, out of mind’ school.” He believes that the reason God invented cabinets and dressers was “so you could keep stuffing your possessions inside and forget about them.”
His wife disagrees.
So they began to purge unneeded possessions. Books were donated to charity and household items were thrown away. But John really struggles with his records, CDs and cassette tapes. His old homemade cassette tapes, in particular, are very precious to...
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