OCD

I wish that i was a little more OCD about cleaning! Can’t stand it! That’s why I have adopted the motto, “a clean house is the sign of a misspent life”! Secretly I know this isn’t true…a clean house is relaxing. I just don’t want to be the one cleaning it. I envy, just a little, those who love to clean. But there is one quirk that I can’t really control…and that is straightening things. If I see a crooked picture or rug I start to twitch…it needs to be straight!!! But the dust around it? Doesn’t really bother me!

I have been watching the series “Monk”…hysterically funny. He has severe OCD about everything. Lovely man. He also needs to straighten things. Where does this tendency come from? I’m no psychologist…but I think that many of us have some form of neurosis. Whether its nail biting, hair pulling, constant hair brushing, hand washing…maybe it’s a fear of public bathrooms, heights, elevators…flying! This is fascinating. When I meet people with quirks I find that I am immediately drawn to them. They are interesting to me…multidimensional.

There are Christians that have spiritual OCD…and these I find taxing. Constant correction and criticism. Nitpicking and straightening! Does it bring satisfaction in some way? Is this what God intended for us? Focusing on the little things? Most of which don’t matter…!! At all!

Matthew 7:1-5 “Do not judge, so that you will not be judged. For by what judgment you judge, you will be judged, and by what measure you measure out, it will be measured out to you. And why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the beam of wood in your own eye? Or how will you say to your brother, ‘Allow me to remove the speck from your eye,’ and behold, the beam of wood is in your own eye? Hypocrite! First remove the beam of wood from your own eye and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye!”

I’m not trying to say that this bible passage is about OCD. Lol. But I’m saying that I see a parallel. We can be so judgmental and picky about what we see around us, that we forget to clean up inside ourselves. There is a speck in someone else’s life that we try to straighten, and meanwhile our own life has a log!!! I want to get to a place inside where I keep myself clean. Where I get obsessive about having hourly, daily and weekly contact with Jesus!! That’s the OCD I want….