One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas Day. Don’t clean it up too quickly.

Life has been crazy, so I have fallen behind.  Here is the Living Advent for Day #18 (12/16/15).   And today's quote has to do with life's messes:
               "One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas 
                 Day. Don’t clean it up too quickly." ― Andy Rooney

And, with two kids, a crazy amount of extracurriculars, lots of community work, etc., we have piles. Oh, yes, much to all of our chagrins (some more than others), we have piles.  And they can get overwhelming.  But, last week (in anticipation of this prompt maybe, and, yes, during Advent), we hosted a party in our house last Friday and had to clean our piles.  And, clean we did (well, mainly Sarah, but the house is cleaner, MUCH cleaner).  And this past week it HAS felt different in our house, like we are waiting for something special to happen.  SO, I think we are going to try to keep the piles lower, and the house more ready for the visitors, for something to happen....similar to Advent, I guess (yes, Michael??)

Psalm 130 is this day's reading, and it is subtitled (in the webpage version to which OFR links), Waiting for Devine Redemption.  Aren't we all??  Maybe that is why we need to keep our house clean (but I thought it was lamps trimmed and burning....) :-)