Cleaning Up The Mess

So if you know me...then you know that I like to clean. I tend to clean as I go. I enjoy turning up the music and cleaning my house. And yes, I do like the smell of bleach because it is the smell of clean. :) I do not understand how people can live in messy houses and when I say messy I mean dirty messy, not just stuff lying around. One day I started thinking about how some people are clean and some people are messy. Then I started wondering why people are messy, do they just not care or do they feel overwhelmed by cleaning or are they somehow less stressed with chaos? So I then asked different people their opinion. Some people said that being clean or messy is part of your personality, some said it is based on habits or how a person grew up, some said being messy is just plain laziness, and others believed it was a mix of personality and habits. Of course, since I like things clean, I wrote a poem about cleaning up the mess.

Clean the Mess

Is it our personality?

Or are we just lazy?
Is lazy part of our personality?
Are our words just words?
Or is there more behind them?
If God's Word is more, then shouldn't are words be more?
If God's Word says watch our idle chatter, then shouldn't we watch it?
Does that mean our words are more?
If our words are more, then shouldn't are mess mean more?
Shouldn't our actions about the mess be more?
Doesn't everyone desire to be clean even thought they are messy?
Is messy really part of their personality?
If God's desire is for us to be clean, then shouldn't our desire be the same?
Where does the desire stop?
We all want a clean heart but we still stumble, right?
Don't we all want to see beauty and not the ugly?
If that is so, then shouldn't we all want what is best?
And isn't what is best to clean up the mess?
Yes, it may take some time.
For messes are overwhelming.
Trying to figure out where to start.
Some people hire others to start.
Some people just leave the mess a mess.
But the greatest accomplishment is working on cleaning the mess.
Cleaning the mess on our own.
But wait there is one more step.
That we must never forget.
We may have created the mess but strength to clean is not from us.
Strength to clean and cleaning come from the one and the same.
Something more deep in our heart.
The clutter and dust may remain each day.
For each day is a new day.
And may is for service of heart.
Service clears the dust of each day.
An what is in our hears clears the clutter.
Will mess or clean rule your room?
Will mess or clean rule your personality?
What will we do each day?
Is our mess our reality?
Why not work on our mess each day?
What happens as we clear our mess away?
Does it ever end?
What can we learn?
What we learn is day to day.
Cleaning each day little by little.
Until one day the Cleaner has helped us clean all the mess away.
Doesn't it feel good to work on cleaning the mess again.
It's a process...It's a process.
But doesn't our Cleaner say, keep on cleaning every day?
Don't look back.
Don't think you can't.
Don't let others do all the work for you.
For in the end who is accountable?
But the ones who cleaned for themselves and for others.
For we all work in harmony.
Harmony to clean the dirt from our feet.
Harmony to clean the mess away.
Harmony to hear behind the words.
To see hidden meanings and understanding.
Cleaning is for all to do.
Don't miss the cleaning that is for you.
For in the end you are responsible.
Responsible, each one of us.
For each individual.
For each with each other.
In Harmony for all to see.
Messy is our room in every way.
But clean it will be.
For the way is not our way.
Because the words our not our words.
One Ultimate Word.
One Ultimate Cleaner.
Messy we are but clean we can be.