Stuff and more Stuff

Saying for the Day- Things will never make you happy in themselves.

In the time we have spent in this part of the duplex we have had very little. We have been happy, anyway. Now we are getting ready to move into our side of the duplex and there are piles and piles of boxes filled with our stuff. We own so much junk. We don’t need it. We have done well without it. But there they are , all those piles. We have started opening and sorting the boxes. This is a slow job at best. Friday we found a bottle opener. You know, the kind that old people use because they can’t twist the top off any more. It never worked so why did we save it ? There were things we couldn’t figure out what they were little alone why we kept them. We have come to the conclusion we are squirrels and our tree is full.
After years of grabbing and holding how do we learn to leave go?
Leaving without those things has helped to teach us we don’t need them.
But need and want are two different things.
How do we who claim to follow Jesus, who didn’t even have a home to call his own , begin to lead a simpler life ?
I am not sure. But I do know this we are going to work at it.
I have a whole list of things that Betty doesn’t need.

@@@@ News from Pigeon Falls-the little town in my garage where the trains still run, dragons fly, and strange things happen.– Saturday came and went and there was no group dream. It could be of course that the big festival last night had some so drunk they didn’t dream at all. That could be it.
Our dragon showed up at the Festival. He flew up and down main street .His flames provide a kind of fireworks look for the evening.
It was shortly after the dragon left that the odd things began to happen. There were a number of barrels of beer on the back of a truck that suddenly exploded. Fountains of beer cascaded into the air. It was kind of pretty. People rushed with their paper cups to save as much as possible. What would a festival be without beer? That’s when some kind of updraft caught the pile of paper cups and they floated around like little paper airplanes. It was kind of funny watching people try to catch them. Then one of the band members fell down the steps of the gazebo where they were playing. He swears he was pushed. But all the other members denied doing it. In the fall he broke his guitar. After that the loudspeaker system used by the band failed. Well, it didn’t really fail fail. It began making odd noises, all kinds of odd noises. The band’s technical person said it had never done that before. The noise or what ever it was attracted the pigeons and they all descended on t he gazebo. It was one weird sight. They had to pull the plug on the amplifier and chase the birds away.
All in all it was a Cinco de Mayo celebration that will long be remembered.
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Went to Church this morning and it was wonderful. The children sang and they had a little orchestra with violins and a drom and fllutes. It was just great.In addition we had Communion and were blessed by the kids laying on hands as we left the altar. Wow what a morning. Then we went out to eat. In the afternoon it was back to sorting through boxes but we threw more away. Stuff that should have nbeen discarded long ago finally went. We found the r emote to the TV so now we can turn it on. Came back over to this part and played canasta and I won. Life is good. Now I need a breathing treatment.
GBYA