There are a lot of references to forty days in the Bible.  There is the flood—a time when the earth was swept clean of its unrighteousness and God promised never to do that again.  Moses goes up to the mountain for forty days in order to receive the Ten Commandments.  There is the Israelites wandering […]

A couple of years ago, I read the life-changing magic of tidying up by Marie Kondo. The advice throughout the book was not only practical, but inspiring—and I don’t mean simply that kind of inspiring that makes you want to go clean your house, it was partly that but also soul-inspiring. Just reading the book […]