Clearing Your Cache And Cookies
One of the things that our web browsers do is store information about sites we visit often. The idea is that if we visit a website often, rather than the web browser having to find and download all of that information from scratch every time, it can store some of the most important information in a data cache that it can immediately load up so we don't have to wait. It can also store login information, addresses and credit cards in what are known as cookies. These caches and cookies are designed to make everything run faster and smoother and improve our web browsing experience. However, over time, our browsers may end up storing so much information in the cache and cookies that it actually makes everything slower and harder to run. Periodically clearing our cache and cookies frees up our computer's memory and makes our browsers more nimble and useful. Like our computers, our hearts and minds store their own caches of memories and traumas, and have their own set of "cookies", or habits and routines. We do this so that we can remember what has brought us pleasure and pain, who has treated us kindly or cruelly, and on and on. And just like with our computers, if we let our hearts' and minds' cache and cookies get clogged up with too many memories and habits, we can start to get locked into indecision paralysis and start to treat everything as a potential threat or disappointment. But all of us have a weekly opportunity to clear our souls' cache and cookies by partaking of the sacrament. We can start the week with a fresh, unladen memory. There is simply no reason that we need to be carrying anything around in our hearts and minds for longer than a week. Christ will take all of it away from us - all of the pain and grief and weakness and guilt and sorrow and despair. He will do this for us every single week if we will let Him. Let us put our trust in Him who is mighty to save, and clear out our hearts and minds every week so that we can tackle the challenges that await us unburdened by the memories and habits of past failures and mistakes.
