5 Minute Friday: Mess

So today, for multiple reasons, I decided to start this blog...a way to put things out there and be more honest and true with myself.  This post is based on a writing prompt for and weekly linkup on a blog that i read regularly (See the Prompt post here).  Based on this I wrote the following:

I am sitting here amongst the clutter gather in every corner of this townhome we out grew two children ago and I'm wondering just how I got here.  I try my best to ignore the mess...to let it go and just enjoy my kids, but I can't seem to let it go.  The mess reminds me of the messes we are experiencing in the rest of our lives.  Those messes are some of our own creation and others are the inevitable outcome of things we can't control.  I start praying to GOD to help us fix the big messes, the things outside our too small townhome.  But the more I pray, the more it seems those prayers go unanswered and then I realize something.  It might be time to try a different approach.  Maybe it is time to stop praying about the things outside my home and to pray about fixing the messes inside, to ask GOD to help me find the focus to tackle the messes inside my home so that I may be ready to tackle the messes outside of it.