Who loves a closet? I do. I love closets for many reasons, most personal but others practical.
A closet is more than a place to put things in; it’s a hiding place. It’s a recluse for prayer and solace.
A closet is also an opportunity to escape the immediate surroundings, a reprieve from whatever gramps your style. It’s a chance to run away mentally in meditation, swimming in the void.
The closet holds your secrets of the things you hide there. It is your safe space. A place for keepsakes, gifts, money, and many others, or a hiding place for your valuables and your shame.
In the closet, you are vigilant, listening for anything out of the ordinary. You can have the lights off or on, but the void speaks to you in the dark. It’s yours to decorate, style, and arrange. Fill it with fun things, outfits, and shoes—all memories of days gone by or soon to come.
The closet can be nonphysical too. A meeting in the open spaces you choose. Perhaps your closet is the car, the back seat, or the front seat during your commute. It can feel like you are confined to it when you’re sitting in traffic or a bad weather event. But you love the security of having a strong metal vehicle surrounding you to offer a bit of safety.
We can lock ourselves in our vehicles for sleeping, reading, or just thinking. Being stuck in traffic is an involuntary closeting.
The closet offers you safety, too.
The work closet, that job you love to stay at, no matter how much you hate the commute. That job is making you feel safe because you won’t leave it. It’s the fact that you are comfortable there, you know everyone, and it’s easy for you now.
Are you sure you don’t want to consider changing your closet? You could redecorate or change what you keep in it.
What about your body, mind, and soul? What you put into your body is going into your safe closet. You hold it and you use it up. Be mindful of what you allow into and keep within your internal closet: your physical body, mental body, and soul.
You are the only one who can care for your body’s closet. Be kind to yourself and show yourself love. Begin to purge your mental and physical body of all poisons and contaminants that make you sluggish or stagnate in personal growth, struggling with weight gain or fatigue.
It’s time to purge what no longer serves you, reevaluate your closets, and make them more appropriate for your new life.
Yes, a new life for you. It’s here; you can embrace it with hope and faith because you have the power. You are the power that makes what you see, keep, and hold onto.
Everything you put in that closet will remain there until you take it out or remove yourself from it. But as long as it remains there, it affects you every day.
Think about how you feel when you find something you forgot you had. You reminisce and feel sad or happy, but put it back in that box or bin and cover it up. You don’t need or even want it, and may feel guilty about throwing it out.
A clean closet is a safe closet, reborn and reopened. It allows for new, bright and modern beginning, with positive things to come in because now you have space—a clean, fresh-smelling space to put things in.
Start fresh with new thoughts, ideas, projects, gifts, shoes, and outfits. It’s time to do it, it’s time to let go of those things from the past. You can remember what you want to. Let go of those painful memories from your childhood. You found that old jacket the abuser gave you. Forgive them and throw that jacket in the trash, or burn it. You found those divorce papers and tax records from two years ago. Throw those papers away, or burn them. You’re still driving that car he gave you, which is filled with memories of road rage and fighting when he gave you that black eye. Didn’t you leave him?
Now, get rid of the car. All those bad memories are still in your closet, in your car, and in your mind. Let that all go!
Keep your closet clean, neat, and organized. Never fill it up with junk or meaningless things.
You can always donate them, as someone else may need them. Don’t stay stagnant because you hold on to material things.
Always keep open space and have a receptive mindset. After all the renovating and praying, your blessings will flow in to fill you up once again.
