The loft groans with forgotten trinkets, wardrobes bulge with clothes we haven’t worn in ages, and the garden shed harbours rusting tools and mystery boxes.
Eventually, something snaps. We resolve to have a proper clear-out.
We sort, we scrub, and we start to breathe again.
What doesn’t belong, we bag up and donate to the parish tabletop sale.
What was once hidden and dusty is now revealed and repurposed.
Something old is given a new chance - or binned to make room for something better.
There’s a reason this process feels so good.
It mirrors, in a small way, the spiritual clearing-out we’re called to as Christians. And no sacrament brings that truth into sharper focus than the Sacrament of Reconciliation.
“Come now, let us reason
together…” (Isaiah 1:18)