Cleanliness is next to Godliness (and subjective)

I consider myself to be an organized neat freak and a clean fiend.

Yet, with added responsibilities in my life, I've acquiesced to whatever I can do right now.

And that's not too much at this point and time (but I know God still loves me).

My personal rooms are atrocious.

I finally got to the kitchen floor and it was not half bad underneath. The kitchen actually cleaned up very nicely, especially after I washed down the walls too.

I will say that my house is more cluttered than anything, with a bit of dust. But, it's ok! Baby steps, I say. Rome was not built in a day!


There IS a difference between filthy, dirty, unlivable, cluttered, and dusty.

Not that I was 'dirty' before, but I have a heightened sense of cleanliness hoping to keep Mom safe from illness, disease, and germ-ridden carriers.


I try keeping my work station at my job straightened, and since it is shared, wipe it down when I arrive and just before I leave for the next person.


At this point, I'm in the middle. There are folks on either side of me on opposite sides of the spectrum. Just when I think I'm really letting something go and slipping, I witness someone much worse.

And, in my quest for clean, there 'appear' to be others even more zealous. But are they?

I've run across a number of folks over the last six months who 'appear' to be clean addicts on the outside, but they don't talk the talk.

For instance, someone who touts the 'clean' life and goes to obsessive 'extremes' of the likes I've never seen before YET constantly runs their hands through their greasy hair (to the point of a nervous twitch) --well, that kind of repulses me.


I rope in this category: chaos and tardiness. Someone who is incessantly tardy or has an air of chaos constantly surrounding them has potential for a dirty disaster (in my opinion).


Someone touting to be a neat freak but smokes--oxymoron.


I'm sure everyone will have their own version and definition of 'clean' or 'dirty' but as long as we try to LIVE the clean life and do the right thing, I'm sure we will always be on the side of 'Godliness.'