Today, I got completely caught up in daily chores, partly because of my organizing OCD. I’ve been trying to sort through everything I brought back from Phoenix. At first, organizing felt exciting, but that feeling quickly faded, replaced by a sense of exhaustion and heaviness. In the midst of it, my mind started playing tricks on me, drawing my attention to even more imperfections around the house. This urge to fix everything at once had me spiraling into multitasking mode.

I know this pattern all too well, it never leads anywhere good. Instead, it leaves me frustrated and completely drained.

So, I stopped everything. I decided to meditate and invite God to step in and help me refocus. As I sat in stillness, I remembered the audiobook we listened to on the way back, The Screwtape Letters. One paragraph stood out to me so vividly, it felt like a wake-up call.

Once he was in the street the battle was won. I showed him a newsboy shouting the midday paper, and a No. 73 bus going past, and before he reached the bottom of the steps I had got into him an unalterable conviction that, whatever odd ideas might come into a man’s head when he was shut up alone with his books, a healthy dose of “real life” (by which he meant the bus and the newsboy) was enough to show him that all “that sort of thing” just couldn’t be true. He knew he’d had a narrow escape and in later years was fond of talking about “that inarticulate sense for actuality which is our ultimate safeguard against the aberrations of mere logic”. He is now safe in Our Father’s house.

I am amazed at how the devil uses the trivial details of daily life to distract us. The sights and sounds of the physical world anchor us in the material, making spiritual truths seem abstract and irrelevant. The constant busyness keeps us spiritually disengaged, pulling us further away from what truly matters.

I have to admit, finding balance in this is incredibly challenging. We live in a physical world where our senses are deeply rooted in the here and now. Yet, our hearts are designed to dwell beyond space and time. Learning how to engage with the physical world without losing connection to the heart is something I need more practice and guidance in.

Thank You, Lord, for bringing this to my attention. I know You revealed this to me so I can grow, and so my heart can remain firmly with You. Show me the way, and I will walk with bare feet, steady, grounded, and fully committed.

I am deeply grateful for how You guided me through even the most tedious moments. I know that the perfection I see by the end of the day is nothing but Your divine arrangement. Your love and goodness continually pursue me, and I am humbled to be the one receiving them. Take my heart, my Lord and King, it’s all I have to offer, though nothing could ever truly be worthy of a King like You.