WHY DO WE ALWAYS MOVE THIS STUFF?

Household trash at the curb awaiting weekly pickup - Vienna, LA (10JUL2022)

YOU WOULD THINK a United Methodist minister who has itinerated all over the state of Louisiana for the last 20 years (not including a year of pre-seminary service) would have the art of moving down to a science, with maximum efficiencies and minimal waste throughout the process.

You would think.

However, you would be wrong.

One thing that ALWAYS happens when we move - ALWAYS - is we discover stuff that NEVER should have been moved TWO moves ago, much less this one. As we are going through the garage, we are finding things that simply made no sense for us to have bought, much less kept, much less moved. I have a working hypothesis that anyone who moves has a similar experience at some point in the process, complete with swearing that this will NEVER happen again.

And then, next thing you know, it happens again.

I cannot help but wonder, as I look out at the curb on this Sunday night, if we all might be more healthy in all aspects of life if we quit lying to ourselves about needing to get rid of the ‘baggage’ we continually carry from place to place throughout our lives, baggage that simply weighs us down and keeps us from fully appreciating the joys of life.

What if you and I make a deal right now to start carrying to the curb the garbage that we keep moving from place to place for no good reason at all?

Grace and Peace, Lamar

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