Clearing the Clutter by The FlyLady, Marla Cilley
Many years ago I was blessed by the words of a dear friend. Her name is Rita Davenport. She had an infomercial on early morning television. I got up about 30 minutes before my family and I would turn on the television and listen to her 30 minute commercial. She grew up in Tennessee and her message was one of love. She sold her motivational tape series for what was an enormous amount of money for me. I don't quite remember how much it was but I saved up my money and purchased it for me. I got my money order and mailed it off to her.
The name of her tape series is It's Time for You! It was 13 tapes that couldn't wait to listen to. Each one helped me become who I am today. I listened to them over and over again until her words became my thoughts. I put them away several years ago and forgot about them. Then out of the blue I found them and put them in my tape player and started to listen to them once again. The words I had forgotten came back and I realized where my thoughts had been kindled from her words.
One of the stories Rita told was about her father. He would always stop to help a stranded motorist. Rita would complain that she was going to be late if he stopped. He would remind her that one day if she had trouble on the road a kind stranger would help her out because he had taken the time to help this person. He would say, "What goes around comes around!"
As our homes get in order we find that we are walking in an envelope of peace. This peace follows us and we pass it on to others. Isn't it amazing when we are no longer living in CHAOS that we can see, hear and feel the arms of God guiding us? When CHAOS reigns we are blind to the needs of others. We are surrounded by a fog and we are always so busy putting out the fires that our blindness has created. Once the fog has lifted and we are able to think the most wonderful things start to happen.
You never know when a simple act of kindness is going to change a life! A couple years ago I started working on a book I titled "What's Next". I wrote about a third of it and then I just stopped. I really didn't know where it was going but now it seems that I have found the place for it. I was telling about how I started to hear and feel God. Even as my clutter was surrounding me the fog in my head was clearing up and I was finally loving myself enough to listen to the God Breezes as they came my direction. This weekend I started writing again. It is all coming together nicely.
I don't believe that I would be who I am today if I had not began the process of replacing the negativity in my head with empowering words and following the God Breezes as I felt them. Our Yahoo mentoring group is close to 500,000 members. I am still in shock that so many people listen to what I have to say. We started our Yahoo Group in 1999 the first year 10,000 people joined us. Now we have about a couple of thousand new members join us each week. We are planning a big party in Dallas in October. I hope you can join us. More details later.
Who knows what is next for us. We just want to help you find peace in your life so that you can follow your God Breezes to become who you are supposed to be.
For more help getting rid of your CHAOS; check out her website and join her free mentoring group at www.FlyLady.net or her book, Sink Reflections published by Bantam and her New York Times Best Selling book, Body Clutter published by Fireside. Copyright 2008 Marla Cilley Used by permission in this publication.
