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Stuff, Stuff and More Stuff

February 12, 2009 at 8:34 am (Uncategorized)

I visited our storage unit a couple of days ago for the first time since we have moved.  I realized I am thankful that is the only time I have braved to visit.  After looking at the small garage and how stuffed it was with our stuff I realized that it was just stuff.  It has been 6 months now that we have lived without all of the stuff we once thought was so valuable.  Now don’t get me wrong my pictures and mementos are important to me but that was not what I was looking at.  In front of me was just junk.  Furniture, toys, clothes, clothes and more clothes and all of it we have been living without for 6 months now.  Then I had a great idea, I thought how about we just list our storage unit and all of the stuff in it on ebay and see what we could get for it.  It would furnish a three bedroom house and then some.  However, my family would probably not agree to such a radical decision but it sounds better to me then having to unpack all of it.  It made me realize how much we had placed value on things that really we could live without.  Every week that goes by and we don’t have our stuff, the less stuff I care to have.  Maybe that is the lesson I am suppose to be learning through this process.  I am reminded of a very popular scripture that seems so true to me these past 6 months, “But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.  For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”  Matthew 6:20, 21.   I believe that for too long now my treasure has been material things that you can live without and do not really need.  Ask yourself, what do you value?  What is your treasure?  You may be surprised at your answer.