• Devotional

    On Tidying Up

    If I order the physical things in my house and country in just the right way, will I bring about spiritual order, peace, and harmony? In a word: No. The problem is that it gets things backwards. We don’t fix a spiritual problem by manipulating physical things. It doesn’t work that way. Even if we instituted a global government and were all forced to march in lockstep, keep immaculate homes, and never express a negative emotion, we would not deal with our underlying problem. In fact, we’d only make the problem worse. Our problem is spiritual and it requires a spiritual solution. The problem is disorder or lack of harmony but…