Monday morning again? Wow! Seems like there is no weekend anymore. Me and the girls spent all day Saturday doing an unplanned cleaning of our storage building. I would have never guessed there was that much junk to get rid of. Happily though a local charity is picking all of the unused things up tomorrow and I will have more space. Space is only temporary though, as you know anytime you clean out something called a storage building that only means there are other things that are waiting to go inside. I am really having to give this a lot of thought. I mean if you aren't using it why would you want to store it? My parents never had a storage building. If the Christmas decorations didn't fit into a small closet then we didn't get any new ones. If the clothes got over filled we threw things out or donated them. Why have we gotten so attached to things. Our leader in Sunday school yesterday was talking about our attachments to worldly things. He talked about the fact that we tend to hold so tight to things and that is all they are "things." When we die God is not going to look at us and say, hey you had a huge amount of things on earth, good job. We need to keep our eye on the prize. We need to hold on tight to God's word and give away the worldly things that do nothing but clutter our daily lives. I have been guilty of holding onto things for sentimental reasons when really the memories these things invoke is where the sentiment really lies. I can take pictures to remember details and still keep the memories attached. I also hold onto things and let them crowd my life thinking about that big yard sale I can have. I want to ask you if you have ever had a yard sale that in the end you could look at all the work you put into it and thought the money you got out of it was worth the trouble and the back ache? I know I haven't. I have decided that things must go. I am taking this one area at a time and calling the charity truck as needed to get these things out of my house. Some of this comes from the fact that I am claustrophobic and I have a reasonable sized house for our family size, but I am slowly being pushed out of my house by all of the things inside it. Now don't get me wrong I am not close to hoarder standards by no means. My family would have thrown me out by now if I were, but I just like everything to be open and airy.
Sunday was a really wonderful day. Hubby was home to go to church with us and the worship was off the chain as our pastor likes to say. I'll say it here that you have to have faith. You have to believe and you have to ask for God's help in your daily life. If you have kept up with my blog you know that I had a partial knee replacement at the first of the year. This makes it almost impossible for me to sit for long periods and walk without pain or get on my knees at the alter and be able to get up without a lot of help. I wanted to go to the alter Sunday because I could feel God moving and I just asked him if He would give my knee the ability to move well enough to get there and get down as low as possible to talk to Him and be able to get up on my own. People let me tell you if you didn't already know, God Is Great. Not only was I able to get down on my knees, but I could feel God telling me that He can do anything if I only ask and it is His will. God has been so good. My knee hasn't given me any trouble since yesterday. I have gone up and down stairs like a normal person and all the glory goes to the one and only God. Praise goes to Him. I just put this in to let you know that if you don't have a personal relationship with God you are missing out on the greatest relationship you can ever have. I have been truly blessed.
Well, I still feel the chunk it all mode going so I guess I need to get up from here and start chucking stuff out. I have even gotten the girls in a lets chunk it all mood. Hooray!!! If you can get kids in this mode then you have defeated half your work. I hope this encourages you to look around at your stuff and really think about what you want your life to be like. Would you rather live crowded in your own home or would you rather dust less stuff, vacuum less furniture and dodge less corners?
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