7 ways to bring ‘God-like’ order to your home

If you’ve ever found yourself binge watching The Home Edit on Netflix, reading Marie Kondo’s book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying or applying to fill a warehouse with the contents of your home with Stacey Solomon, then you are one of my people. I’m a Professional Organiser, I spend my week helping people declutter their lives of all that is unnecessary and replacing their chaos with order. I do this because I believe order is good and I think we all crave order in our lives. My belief that this desire for order is innate to all of us stems from the Genesis story - God takes the disorder and darkness described in the second sentence of the Bible and brings out of it order and beauty and goodness, and in doing so He makes a world where life can flourish. As God began to move in his week of creation, he formed and then he filled, there was an order to all things and He said “it is good”. In Genesis we also read that we are made in the image of this God who loves order and so that is part of who we are.

 I’m not quite sure I realised the extent to which order can help us flourish physically, mentally and spiritually until 2020 when we went into lockdown due to the Covid pandemic. Suddenly many of us were confined to our homes, they became multi-functional - operating as classrooms, offices, gyms and our only place of leisure. For many of us it was overwhelming and the state of our surroundings became a source of great stress. Not many people were thriving, chaos reigned not least in our homes.