on spiritual lessons learnt on my day off

yesterday was my spiritual day off. Basically my organisation believes in letting us taking a day off every quarter to go meditate on all stuff spiritual. So yesterday, I did something really 'spiritual'...

I cleaned up my room.

Now before you cast your stones at me and cry "Blasphemy!"^, let me explain. The act of cleansing is an act of purification. Despite the tediousness and physicality of the activity,cleaning my room actually brought a few spiritual lessons to mind:

1) The room was not dirty before/ the soul is not dirty before; but due to dust/sin, it is dirty.

2) it takes effort to stay clean. The room cannot just stay clean by itself, it needs someone to clean it (a duh)... Likewise, the soul is stained by original sin. No matter how hard one works at being sinless, the stain will always be there. Unless you got an Ultimate Cleaner~

3) I found a couple of lost treasures buried beneath the heaps of dust bunnies and papers (i.e. bills, flyers, church pamphlets, whoops! :p) Similarly, beneath our sinful selves, are qualities that are precious and dear to God. Yeaps, they're there, you just have to look harder to find them...

All in all, yesterday's experience was similar to the toilet-cleaning experience I had a couple of years back.* I'm glad that God brought me back to a long forgotten lesson. Oh, and my room's only two-thirds cleaned. Looking forward to the next cleaning experience :P
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Isaiah 55

Invitation to the Thirsty

 ¹ "Come, all you who are thirsty,
       come to the waters;
       and you who have no money,
       come, buy and eat!
       Come, buy wine and milk
       without money and without cost.

 ² Why spend money on what is not bread,
       and your labor on what does not satisfy?
       Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,
       and your soul will delight in the richest of fare.

 ³ Give ear and come to me;
       hear me, that your soul may live.
       I will make an everlasting covenant with you,
       my faithful love promised to David.

 ⁴ See, I have made him a witness to the peoples,
       a leader and commander of the peoples.

 ⁵ Surely you will summon nations you know not,
       and nations that do not know you will hasten to you,
       because of the LORD your God,
       the Holy One of Israel,
       for he has endowed you with splendor."

 ⁶ Seek the LORD while he may be found;
       call on him while he is near.

 ⁷ Let the wicked forsake his way
       and the evil man his thoughts.
       Let him turn to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him,
       and to our God, for he will freely pardon.

 ⁸ "For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
       neither are your ways my ways,"
       declares the LORD.

 ⁹ "As the heavens are higher than the earth,
       so are my ways higher than your ways
       and my thoughts than your thoughts.

 ¹⁰ As the rain and the snow
       come down from heaven,
       and do not return to it
       without watering the earth
       and making it bud and flourish,
       so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,

 ¹¹ so is my word that goes out from my mouth:
       It will not return to me empty,
       but will accomplish what I desire
       and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.

 ¹² You will go out in joy
       and be led forth in peace;
       the mountains and hills
       will burst into song before you,
       and all the trees of the field
       will clap their hands.

 ¹³ Instead of the thornbush will grow the pine tree,
       and instead of briers the myrtle will grow.
       This will be for the LORD's renown,
       for an everlasting sign,
       which will not be destroyed."

taken from http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+55&version=NIV

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^ yea, that's human nature for you, cast stone first, then cry the warning, and perhaps repent later :p
* yeaps, it's somewhere to the front my blog. Have fun searching for it :p