Time to unpack

About this episode

The episode discusses how Lent can be a time for self-examination and sorting through the emotional clutter in our lives, drawing parallels with the TV series Sort Your Life Out.

The TV series Sort Your Life Out features families overwhelmed by the number of possessions and the amount of clutter that is filling their homes. They simply don’t know where to begin. The first step involves removing everything and laying it all out in a huge warehouse. Next, they are guided through the process of deciding what to keep and what to give up. It’s astonishing to see quite how much one family can accumulate, from thousands of toys to dozens of pairs of shoes and, in one case, 521 odd socks. It strikes me that we might think of Lent as an opportunity to sort our lives out but in a different way. Over the course of time our lives fill up with clutter – bad habits, resentments, grievances, losses, and despair. If we’re not careful we may find ourselves feeling overwhelmed. Used rightly Lent is a season for self-examination, an opportunity to lay everything out before God and seek his help to sort through the clutter. In the TV series Stacey Solomon is the kindest of guides through what can be a very emotional process. If we will allow him Jesus will be our guide as we look honestly at our lives and decide what we may keep and what must go. The post Time to unpack…

People in this episode

Host: Turn the Page

Topics covered

• self-examination
• clutter
• Lent
• spiritual guidance
• emotional process

Keywords

• clutter
• Lent
• self-examination
• bad habits
• emotional process
• possessions
• guidance

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Sort Your Life Out, Lent

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