Sorting laundry

Sorting laundry is kind of like sorting through emotions. You have to put each piece of clothing/emotion in it's proper place. You have to identify which pile it goes in. Silly analogy, I know. For some reason I thought of this the other day when I was doing laundry. I have had alot of emotions to sort through lately. I have had to give each one to the Lord to help me process it or sort it...to make sure it goes in it's proper place. Sometimes, my emotions have to go through the wash of sanctification because I sin in my emotions at times.
Anyway, this sorting pattern has been helping me alot lately. Just purposefully taking each emotion to the Lord and asking Him if it is clean. I mean, emotions in of themselves are fine, they come from God. Yet in our flesh sometimes we can sin through our emotions.