Cleaning Up

 I know people who clean their house before the cleaning people come.   They don't want the cleaning people to know how messy they are.  Someone said that God is like "the cleaning lady."  She expects a mess.  You don't have to hide the mess.  Think of God as your higher power who comes to do a really good job of finding all the dark and hidden corners where the really bad mess is.  We are all meant to be sparkling clean but life happens, mess happens and then we need help.  God, Power, Love comes to clean up.  So you need not try and hide your mess from God, the cleaning person.  That is why the 12 steps has step 4 and 5, and why Catholics have confession, and Jews Yam Kippur.