Pickers

It's interesting that several top tv shows right now are shows like Pickers and Pawn Stars. We all have to much stuff!

Right now my attic is too full - I cannot wait to get in there and re-organize. Most of it is my kids childhood stuff.

Here is my question- is it sinful to have so much that we have attics and basements full? and then there all the rented storage units - silly, what are we saving our stuff for?

So what do you think, is it actually WRONG to have more stuff than you need or use?

what I learned today

I am selfish. I know it, I work on it, I find it hard to share.

I think it comes out of not growing up in a lavish household. My parents worked hard for what we had, and believe me we had more than we needed, but, you know what I mean. Nothing wasteful, home grown food, no extravagant vacations - but, tons of love and laughs. Good stuff.

In John 5 - He talks about the fact that the slave is not greater than his master and how He chose us.

How then do we think that anything we have really belongs to us? I find myself working for the next thing to buy. I act more excited about what the next purchase is than about helping someone financially - giving to orphans as God tells us to - or even just saving instead of spending. American I guess.

He is working on my heart - everything I have is not mine and could be gone in an instant. It really, really is the desire of my heart to bless others with what He has given me - and that's what God's Word reminded me of today. Are you selfish like me?

happy but messy house

It is so funny how you can feel like you have plenty of space when your kids are young - but as our kids and their stuff moved home oh my our house is small!

Just got on my computer for a couple of minutes before heading to bed...actually had hoped to write and study quite a bit today - but with company coming this weekend we worked like crazy today!

As you can see from my pictures - we needed to work! Good night!

deconstruct

In order to clean you have to take things out, deconstruct.

As I took dishes from my cabinets today to clean and to eliminate unused dishes, I thought back over the last few weekends' teachings from Ephesians. The teachings were powerful words from God.

Deconstruction/Reconstruction.

First you empty it all out and clean it, then you fill it back up...with the right stuff, only with the necessary things.

Much like my house, my life is sometimes full of too much stuff. This does not allow enough room for the right things. How sad it must make my God when there is no room for him in my days full of stuff... I will continue my cleaning in more ways than one.