You're listening to the Allender Center podcast with Dr. Dan Allender.

This week, Dan continues our series about how delight might allow us to discern the voice of God as we make decisions.

With some help from Marie Condo's famous work around clutter and tidiness, Dan invites us to consider how even the smallest decision

might help draw us deeper into beauty and goodness.

In the last podcast, I talked about the necessity to have a North Star, a sense of what helps you make decisions as to a partner, a friendship, a job, or even far more minor moments like, do you stop and get coffee or try to get to work a few

moments early? And that question, I think, comes back to what guides us. And even though we speak

about being guided by the spirit of God, being guided by what Jesus desires, by his will,

we still have to have criteria for imagining and having a sense of

what will bring him joy.

And that's where we began talking about this very interesting book.

The last portion was talking about Marie Kondo's book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up.

And her book has sold 5 to 7 million copies.

She has a new Netflix series where you can actually see her in action tidying up a person's life.

So let me give you just a few categories. I'm not a

proponent of her book. If one needs to know, I have not gone through her life-changing process

of a whole house tidying up. But I can give you a few categories. But again, remember, I'm less concerned

about helping you declutter the complexity of the possessions you own, but using this more as

both a bridge and metaphor for talking about the larger work of what it means to, in one sense,

have a far more decluttered life and one that's ruled and in one sense given meaning

and purpose through the category of delight.

So as I have read her book, she basically has one core premise, and that is we own reams and mountains

of stuff that we either don't have much use for, but in fact, indeed, clutters our closets,

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