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Kondo’s “method” focuses on finding the things that you own that bring joy to your life-and tossing the rest.
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Her 2011 book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up has been an international hit and Time magazine declared her one of the 100 most influential people in 2015. In case you are even more cut off from these kinds of things than I am, Marie Kondo is an organizing consultant who was born in Japan and now lives in the United States. I don’t have a Netflix machine-or whatever it is you need to be able to watch Marie Kondo’s show-but it’s been hard not to notice the craze that has swept our nation since “Tidying Up with Marie Kondo” was released by Netflix on the first of January. It is a distinct method and comes with its own checklist-although I don’t think that “Tidiness is next to godliness” is actually its official motto. I thought of Wesley recently mostly because of another “method” that has captured our nation’s attention-KonMari-the wildly popular system for tidying your house. And Methodism took its name from the “method” that Wesley’s followers used to develop their spiritual lives. Those are the words of John Wesley, the eighteenth century Anglican priest who was the founder of Methodism. You have heard the proverb: “Cleanliness is next to godliness”-but don’t go looking for it in your Bible.