The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.What words of wisdom.
-Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
I did it! I pressed the button and confirmed my decision to spend a week in London on my way home from Romania. To say that I am excited would be as much as an understatement as saying the sun is hot.
I am currently puzzling over how to bring only 44 pounds of stuff with me. I mean seriously, think about that. 44 pounds. That's like not very much. I am narrowing down and re-defining my views of what I need to live with. I am constantly reminded of the Romanians that we will be living among. While I'm packing shirt after shirt after shirt I suddenly think "They live with only 2 shirts," and I will take all my shirts out of my suitcase and decide which ones I like best, and what I can live without.
I'm in a little bit of a different boat than my family though, I can leave everything that I don't pack in a box and get it all back in 5 months. The rest of my family has to actually get rid of all the stuff they don't pack. They have to actually live for years without having stuff. More and more I realize that stuff is just stuff.
Think about that. Stuff is just stuff.
I honestly think, the less stuff we have, the more we are able to look up to Him to provide. A song just started playing that just about sums it up. Read the words and dwell.
I will lift my eyes to the Maker
of the mountains I can't climb
I will lift my eyes to the Calmer
of the oceans raging wild
I will lift my eyes to the Healer
of the hurt I hold inside
I will lift my eyes, lift my eyes to You
'Cause You are and You were and You will be forever
the Lover I need to save me
'Cause You fashioned the earth and You hold it together, God
so hold me now
-Matthias
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Hey Matt!! Oh, sooo true.... we just got off of a 30-hour famine to help awareness of the orphans in third-world countries. That was a big point that I learned too. Stuff is just stuff. Very wise.
Anyways, that song is one of my favorites, it makes me bawl like a baby most of the time, just because Jeremiah seems to play it right when I'm going through the hardest things. Yes, a very, very good song.
Well, I don't know if I'll be able to talk to ya'll before you leave, so if not, I love you guys, and I will and am praying for ya!!
Becky
London...LONDON???!!!
Two friends in England in one year. Can I handle this? (-:
Things, stuff, crap...words that are synonymous in meaning I think. Reading your post makes me wonder why I hang on to all the stuff I hang on to...
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