Ditch Digging Lately?

Last week, we had some special visitors to the back yard. The city or county make out to clean out the back ditch. Most rains that we have, we just watch it slowly rise in our back yard. Several rains we had last fall just were just too much and the rain just overflowed into the streets and once all the up into Jay's car. They redefined the edges and cleared out all the leaves and yuck that was in the ditch. Hopefully this will help with run off and less mosquitos too.

The children had a wonderful time watching the digger work from Mommy's bedroom.

This winter and spring, my time has been so consumed with caring for Hannah Moriah and getting physical therapy for Elim and working on Bible Drill, that I have been collecting up junk in my own ditch!! As you can see just a little bit in the bedroom picture (one bag beside HM) I had filled my corner in my bedroom with so many piles of stuff: 3 bags to donate to Women's Center, 3 bags to go to Mission Mart, 3 boxes of HM clothes to go to three separate people, and probably other stuff that just collected there!
Anyway, just this week, I worked really hard clearing out my ditch. I felt like life and stuff was closing in on me and I desparately needed some space in my life! See my beautiful corner now- it's ready for the rocking chair to come downstairs from Elim's room.

So what areas of your house seem to be collecting junk and becoming a full ditch? I know it was just a corner (there are plenty of other areas to tackle- like kitchen cabinets for next week!!), but I feel like a new woman with a clean corner- I so much need some more white space in my life. I pray God will help me to continue to clear out the physical clutter that I have more room for the spiritual blessings to pile up.
"Dear, dear Corinthians, I can't tell you how much I long for you to enter this wide-open spacious life. We didn't fence you it. The smallness you feel comes from within you. Your lives aren't small, but you're living them in a small way. I'm speaking as plainly as I can and with great affection. Open up your lives. Live openly and expansively!" 2 Corinthians 6: 11-13