At the beginning of the summer I really felt sufferings from Scatterbrain –

I don’t think I am more organized or focused on the tasks but now focused on the getting thru…

and summer is a great time to “get thru” – and enjoy summer too…

no guilt for beach trips over box unpacking

no guilt for outside eating over kitchen duties

yes some guilt for piles that I couldn’t walk around – but I got around!

And the piles from my daughter coming back from college – it was a ripple effect she said – that she needed one item (like new shelves in her room) and under the bed storage bins that would help the whole process start… I get that – the ripple effect.

The Ripple Effect is also when one cleans one small corner – which I did last night – in an attempt at a cleaning 3-day weekend. By the dryer – moved and swept – and even cleaned out the embedded lint too with a brush. Then move three more feet and keep going – keep cleaning – and ripple it better. It helps that I feel blessed to give stuff away and not trash it – like I have seen way too many times in my trash-picking mornings – wow people toss good stuff that should have been donated!!! And since I get good free stuff – I don’t mind donating good stuff. Better a clear mind than a cluttered room.

OK – round 1 – the living room pile is removed of clothes – they were good investments the under the bed storage…. Round 2 will be kitchen stuff from 2 apartment years – consolidate, donate, alleviate.

The clarity here is a path to walk down – physically in this living room – and in this house – and then mentally and spiritually in life – Jesus IS our Path-maker and angst-taker – Let Him lead the way – and de-scatter the brain for the King Who does reign…

Thanks Lord for the Summer – I loved it….

Amen

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Original Poem:

Scatterbrained

I realized my problem, especially these past few weeks, I’m feeling totally SCATTERBRAINED!!!

Partially particularly feeling drained, 

But partially ALSO being ENERGIZED by random thoughts in my brain’s new terrain.

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My “to-do” thoughts are MANY, feeling broken up yet they SHOULD shine like a rainbow through the rain.

The light once white is clearly colorly fractured, and yet also fogged up from beaming nicely in my scatterbrain.

It’s like I’ve taken many a bend in the tracks of my thinking train.

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I’m fine though, don’t mistake me, I’m fine even as I complain.

I know how to retrieve what’s missing in my scatter brain. 

I have to remind myself to find that focused narrow lane.

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It’s Jesus I need. JESUS, His Peace I RECLAIM. 

He as WHOLE LIGHT completes any missing colors lost down my mental rainbow’s drain. 

His blood recovers any missteps too, from which I should have known to refrain.

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Jesus bring me back to less mental pain.

You Lord ARE the Promise to get us out of the rain.

There is nothing for which Jesus’s Forgiveness won’t pertain.

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My loss is my gain if Jesus Hope I retain. 

Remembering Lord, YOU LEAD, YOU REIGN.

Help me see Your clarity, I request this for my scatterbrain. 

Amen