Thank You For Today

I often remind myself to shake the dust, and I think why I've ritualized the act of getting rid of things is because of the holy clean. I wrote in my last post about how I have the urge to delete everything and start again, but I'm too long in the tooth to keep that pattern up. Regardless, I suppose you could say that I get my spring cleaning started earlier than most, in late October of the year before. To start again from the beginning means everything is reset to the easiest register, sure. But it also means to be naked, to be empty. To be bare. You find yourself weighing far less than before. A cleanse. To purify the self—and to become clean once again. Holy Cleaning John Wesley, in his sermon titled "On Dress," wrote how "slovenliness is no part of religion" and that "cleanliness is, indeed, next to godliness." That specific phrase, though, doesn't appear anywhere in the Bible. But you can look at how Mosaic Law gave both physical and ceremonial purification rules. As well as…