It’s Friday morning, and the guy from H2O Water is coming to service my water filtration system.  We have a ton of iron and other minerals in our well water here in Central Connecticut, and this system filters a lot of it out. 

Because we’re following CDC guidelines, I go down to open the basement hatchway, the inner door, and turn on all the lights so he only has to touch the unit itself.  When I open the doors, I see a mess.  Giant cobwebs, lots of dirt and leaves.  Completely covering the basement steps.

Now I’m frantically sweeping everything to the bottom step and picking it up.  Because I don’t want him to slip and fall or miss a step because he can’t see the stairs.  I don’t want him to get the cobwebs on his pants.  I don’t want all dirt that tracked into the basement.  I don’t want him to think I never clean.

And you know what?  I never use those stairs.  Everything I need outside is in the garage.  So I can’t think of the last time I opened those doors.  Looked there.  Maybe a year ago when he came.  Or maybe not even then.

We all have places that might need cleaning and we don’t see.  Or maybe don’t even open or go to.  There’d be no way we’d see them.

Maybe those places are in the house, garage, storage unit, or car.  Or, maybe they’re in our life.  Our thought life.  Emotional life.  Work life.

We can neglect to open doors, thinking we don’t need to go there.  Until one day when we do and we see the mess that looks like what I found on my basement steps.

I have a choice, and you do too.  I can remember to look once in a while and clean the steps.  I can open doors in my own heart that might need airing or cleaning out.  You can too.

What door might you want to open today that you’ve not opened for a while?  Leave a comment.

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