Our housekeeping chores can be physical reminders to us of important mindset patterns in our lives. I am not the person to tell you how to clean your house or organize your paperwork, which is why I introduced you to Flylady in Step Seven and to Learn Do Become in Step Twenty-One. But I can help you find meaning in some of your chores.
Today our focus is on windows. A window allows light into your home and allows you to see out of your home. So shining our windows can have a double symbolism.
Bring Light into Your Life
A window keeps your home from being a dark cave. It fills your life with sunshine even when you are indoors. What a wonderful reminder that your main purpose each day, the purpose of The Steps, is to increase the energy, light, and love in your life, to function at a higher light level. This is how you can relate with love to others. This is how you can combat depression and other negative problems. When you make sure you are at a higher energy, you automatically make the world a better place.
See Others with More Clarity
I love the story about the woman who looks out at her neighbor’s clothesline each day and grumbles about how poorly this neighbor washes her clothes. Then one day she looks out and the clothes are fresh and clean. She comments to her husband that she is glad the neighbor has finally learned how to do her laundry. The husband responds with the fact that the reason the clothes look cleaner is because he got sick of her grumbling and cleaned the window so she could see clearly.
The moral is, we see others through our own clouded judgement. Our focus should not be on how other people should fix all their problems, but on leveling ourselves up so we can see them more clearly through the eyes of love and understanding.
Today’s Task
So your task today is to pick a window and make it sparkle. Clean with gratitude for light and love, for the things you can see outside. Ponder where you are at on your journey to increase your light energy every single day to be a force for good, and consider your view of the world and others around you right now. Is there darkness in your vision that needs to be lighted? You just need to do one window, but get everything: the sills, tracks, glass. Try to apply this intentional cleaning every time you do shine a window.