Clear Your Plate

Remember when you were a kid and your mum told you that if you didn’t clear your plate you wouldn’t get dessert? And remember that feeling of smugness you felt when you did clear your plate and got dessert but your sibling didn’t because they’d left all that yummy, delicious kale on the plate? Yeah, good times. Right? Some wise soul once said, “If we want to live a full, attentive life to God and others we need to clear our plates.” Wise words indeed. But how do we clear our overfull plates when we’re overstuffed on busyness and we’re not able to live that full, attentive life to God and others? How do we enjoy the good, sweet part that becomes the reward for clearing our plates? The problem isn’t that we wouldn’t gladly clear our plates from all our busyness, we just don’t know how to. If you’re struggling to clear your plate and want to live a full, attentive life to God and others, here are two suggestions…