Being in a new place is so confusing.  I feel like we are in a temporary place until the real thing is provided.  Our bed is on the floor (bed was broken in move).  We have no couch.  I have no system for laundry yet.  Boxes half empty are in every room.  Boxes still unopened are in every room except the kitchen.  Our food stays fresh longer, not sure why.  There are toys everywhere, not sure why.  There are no pictures on the walls.  Dog kennels in the dining room.  Train tables in the living room.  

I feel like I am constantly cleaning up.  This is not including regular chores such as dishes, vacuum or cleaning bathrooms, which I do.  There is always something extra.  Something to put away or worse - not put away because we have no furniture to house it and back to the garage it goes.  While I work on a small section in this room or another room, there never seems to be anything clean.  Even after I have finished, it looks like a make shift set up for a stranger passing through.  

I looked at homes to see how to decorate a home yesterday.  I was searching for some inspiration or a look to have, a goal to achieve.  There were all of these pictures of professionally interior decorated homes that looked as though no one actually lived there.  Magazine picture homes that are four times as expensive as anything I own.  Then I looked around my own new home and see the moving truck splayed out on the floor.  Not only do we live in this new house, we are living all over it.   

God, grant me clarity - grant me cleanliness.  Help me each day to continue to do your work. Amen