Junk in the Trunk

So, I am off track.  It has been five and a half years since we moved into this house and my goal is to get into the closets and storage areas and de-junk.  For me to manage to tackle this unappealing chore I must dwell on the desired outcome and how great it will feel to finally be organized, streamlined, and better able to function, because all the extraneous clutter of old junk is disposed of.

I can make an analogy with this process of de-junking, to life.  Sometimes we go through life with the proverbial "junk in the trunk."  The pain or disappointment caused by trials, hurts, and challenges, perhaps sins, that we have collected and that we are just carrying around with us.  This cargo is extraneous and actually harmful to us.  It causes us to build walls instead of bridges.  It often causes us to doubt our potential, or our ability to be loved, and our personal value.  It cause us to build walls, instead of bridges, and behind these walls, we hide our junk--and our true selves.  Sometimes in life, as in houses, it is good to get into those closets and do some de-junking.  This is an unappealing chore, there is dust, and cobwebs, and old memories that we don't want to deal with, but when do it and we eliminate all that stuff-- we, like our houses, are clean, ordered, and better able to function because the clutter of our past is cleaned out.