My Road to Simplicity: Tom's of Maine giveaway

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

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Why am I doing this?

This is currently a post on my blog, but over time it is going to get lost and I feel this is an important post.

I have been asked quite a few times why I'm doing this. Most people think I'm crazy. Well I might be crazy, but I don't think the reason I am doing it is. My "things" take time away from my family, we work hard to have money to continue to pay for these "things"....we never seem to get ahead and are always falling behind and we see less and less of each other. My husband and my children are important to me, I'm not going to have them forever. My husband has been diagnosed with a life threatening illness, he could live for many years, even out live me, or he could die this week. In fact even without a life threatening illness, we don't know how long our stay is here on Earth. I could be gone tomorrow and how will I have spent my today? Probably cleaning, organizing, digging through a box to find something I am wanting. Wasting time on "things" that could be spent with my family or doing something I enjoy. We work hard and what do we have to show for it? A mortgage and car we can't afford, a house full of "things" that will probably be sold for a quarter each when we died. We have been married 12 years and only been able to take one vacation. I am choosing my family over "things", I'm choosing a life of less because I know in the end it will be the richest life I could possibly have. God has put so many things into my life for me to realize this is the path He wants me to take and I'm not going to resist any longer....I'm going to walk this path with Him.

My Life is But a Weaving

Life is But a Weaving

My life is but a weaving
Between my God and me.
I cannot choose the colors
He weaveth steadily.
Oft’ times He weaveth sorrow;
And I in foolish pride
Forget He sees the upper
And I the underside.
Not ‘til the loom is silent
And the shuttles cease to fly
Will God unroll the canvas
And reveal the reason why.
The dark threads are as needful
In the weaver’s skillful hand
As the threads of gold and silver
In the pattern He has planned
He knows, He loves, He cares;
Nothing this truth can dim.
He gives the very best to those
Who leave the choice to Him.

Each week a group of friends and I will take a clean out challenge. I will keep track here.

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Tuesday, November 23, 2010

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