Keep Your Yard Clean

I'm currently reading a book by Anne Lamont, titled, "Bird by Bird". She tells of a friend who claims that we are all born with an "emotional acre" all our own.

Think of your body. Your physical, mental, and spiritual self, being likened to an acre or a piece of property. Mine, is my yard. I have heard people call it a porch, "Keep your own porch clean and swept", a house, and I'm sure there are many other illustrations.

Back to the acre. 

Anne goes on to say,

"You get one, your awful Uncle Phil gets one, I get one, Donald Trump (my reference) gets one, everyone gets one. And as long as you don't hurt anyone, you really get to do with your acre what you please. You can plant fruit trees or flowers or alphabetized rows of vegetables or nothing at all. If you want your acre to look like a giant garage sale, or an auto-wrecking yard, that's what you get to do with it. 

There's a fence around your acre, with a gate, and if people keep coming onto your land and sliming it up or trying to get you to do what they think is right, you get to ask them to leave. And they have to go because it is your acre. "

I like that. I try to keep my yard nice and clean all the time. It takes work. I also try not to have too much going on in my yard. I spread myself thin at times, so I already don't have enough time for the things that need my focus and attention now. Why would I want to have flowerbeds, ponds, and animals all over the place? Those things take time to keep up.

I could write about so many things here, but my point is simply just to keep yourself clean and uncluttered. Be careful who you let up in your yard. What happens when trash blows up on it? Rake it up, pick it up, and burn it. Keep a watchful eye on your property.

Proverbs chapter 4, says :

"Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life. Put away from you a deceitful mouth, and put perverse lips far from you. Let your eyes look straight ahead and your eyelids right before you. Ponder the path of your feet, and let all your ways be established."