There are the sacraments.
The other day I cleaned out the wardrobes in my home.
There were old clothes in there that we have not worn for some time. Somethings no longer fit. Others were stained and worn out.
And so it was that the other day I started sifting through the clothes inside the wardrobe, sorting the good clothes from the bad ones. After several hours, I was able to have the entire cupboard spic and span and had collected a large pile of clothing to donate to charity and another pile to put straight into the garbage bin.
And inside the wardrobe itself there was so much more room to be able to see and sort through all the nice clean clothes.
And I have been thinking about that today. You see, it seems to me today that the wardrobe and its cleaning is like my spiritual soul.
You see, just as the wardrobe fills up with less than desirable things as time goes on when I am not giving it attention, so too does my spiritual soul become more and more cluttered with undesirable things as I am focused on other things in my life.
And just as the wardrobe needs a good clean out every now and then, so too does my spiritual soul…
The other day I was thinking about Christianity in general and Catholicism in particular. I was reflecting on why it is that Catholicism is such a gift to me… Of course, there is the direct link back to Christ Himself and Saint Peter in an unbroken chain of Popes who have never separated from Christ’s original instituted Church, despite corruption, sin and human weakness over the millennia. But there is more to it than that… There are the sacraments.
In the sacraments, we have been given the gift of more complete connection to God. And God was infinitely clever about this… He ensured that would be the case if we had a sinful priest administer the sacrament, or a saintly one.
There is nothing in this world that can hinder the Grace of the sacraments if a soul is willing to accept it and a priest is available to administer it.
And I have been reflecting on that today because it seems to me that there are so many things for me to do and so many ways that I can do them, and I have let a lot of clutter into my soul, to block the way. And so, I must turn to the sacraments and to prayer – for that is the only way…
And when I think about that today, it occurs to me that I need to invest some time in cleaning out the wardrobe of my soul – for though I am busy, there is much work yet for me to do…
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