Donning the Law of the Day

Free of what does not belong — an unmixed vessel, so what is inside can come out undiluted.

1. 01Free from dirt, stain or contamination
2. 02Unmixed — nothing foreign added to it
3. 03Pure in motive as well as in appearance
4. 04Clear of debt, clear of charge, clear of guilt
5. 05Blank and ready — a clean page, a clean slate
6. 06Complete and total, as in a clean break
7. 07Honest and above-board in dealing
8. 08Wholesome; free from what corrupts
9. 09Neat and orderly, nothing out of place
10. 10Sharp and exact, as a clean cut or a clean line
11. 11Empty of clutter, so capacity is visible
12. 12Fit to be handed to another without apology

Openly clean — she says the true thing plainly, without flattery and without hiding.

1. 01Frank and sincere in speech
2. 02Truthful without cruelty; open without carelessness
3. 03Free from bias or pretense
4. 04Straightforward — the same in private and in public
5. 05Unposed, as in a candid photograph
6. 06Fair-minded in judgment
7. 07Plainly spoken, even when it costs her
8. 08Transparent about motive as well as fact
9. 09Honest enough to be trusted with a secret
10. 10White and clear at the root — nothing dyed

Clean, candid, and now cut down to essence — everything necessary, nothing wasted.

1. 01Brief but complete; nothing essential left out
2. 02Expressed in the fewest words that will carry the weight
3. 03Cut down — pruned to its living wood
4. 04Compact and dense with meaning
5. 05Free of padding, hedging or repetition
6. 06Precise; exact in scope
7. 07Economical — costly nothing extra to say or run
8. 08Pithy, so it is remembered after she leaves
9. 09Distilled, as a syrup is reduced to sweetness
10. 10Governing by clarity rather than by volume

To uncover — to let the light in on what is actually there before arranging it.

1. 01To uncover; to lay open to view
2. 02To bring a hidden thing into the light
3. 03To leave unprotected so it can be seen truly
4. 04To make known what was concealed
5. 05To reveal the real condition of a thing
6. 06To subject to air, light or examination
7. 07To display for the first time
8. 08To unmask what was pretending
9. 09To open a surface so it can be worked on
10. 10To admit the truth about what you are carrying

To strike out entirely — not to hide what was exposed, but to remove it.

1. 01To erase completely; to blot out
2. 02To strike from the record as though it never stood
3. 03To remove entirely rather than manage
4. 04To cancel a debt or a charge
5. 05To purge what has no right to remain
6. 06To delete a line so the page reads clean
7. 07To root out, not merely trim
8. 08To wipe away a stain at its source
9. 09To end a practice rather than reduce it
10. 10To clear ground for what is coming

To make sweeter by washing continually — to shed and shed until what remains is pure enough to give to anyone.

1. 01To sweeten; to render mild and palatable
2. 02To wash away salts, acids and impurities
3. 03To purify by repeated rinsing
4. 04To free a substance from what makes it bitter
5. 05To soften harshness without weakening substance
6. 06To refine continually rather than once
7. 07To make a hard truth receivable
8. 08To take the sting out while keeping the strength
9. 09To cleanse a work until it can be handed to a stranger
10. 10To shed, again and again, as a practice and not an event

Room — unobstructed space and unguarded honesty, the raw material of all potential.

1. 01The state of being unclosed and unobstructed
2. 02Available room; space not yet filled
3. 03Frankness — plain speech without hedging
4. 04Receptivity to instruction and correction
5. 05Freedom from prejudice or fixed conclusion
6. 06Accessibility; the door not locked
7. 07Transparency in dealings and in books
8. 08Willingness to be seen as one actually is
9. 09Wide margin — capacity held in reserve
10. 10The clearing where a house can be built

A vessel with a way out — the channel through which energy, money and mercy actually pass.

1. 01An opening through which something is released
2. 02A channel of escape or expression
3. 03A place where goods are sold and delivered
4. 04A means by which energy is put to use
5. 05A mouth of a river — where the water finally reaches land
6. 06A vent that keeps pressure from becoming damage
7. 07A point of supply others can draw from
8. 08A market that receives what she produces
9. 09An occupation that gives her strength somewhere to go
10. 10A vessel that does not merely hold but pours

Many doors — the businesses, tables and houses through which her prosperity touches everything.

1. 01Multiple channels of release and supply
2. 02A network of places where her work is received
3. 03Business ideas made real and operating
4. 04Storefronts, ministries and tables under one house
5. 05Doors of prosperity opened to others
6. 06Distribution — the many mouths of one river
7. 07Vessels she has built for other women to pour through
8. 08Points of charity reaching every commoner's door
9. 09Streams of income, each with its own bed
10. 10An estate measured by how many ways it gives