Act 23 - Last Rolo

Today's act speaks directly to my confession last week that I have way too much stuff and my desire to 'de-stuff' my life and give away what I don't need...but what will I struggle to part with? Which are the things that I don't need but find comforting to have? If I'm honest there's probably very few things I own which are necessary but in our culture we are not good at travelling lightly through life. My desire is to streamline and simplify. I don't want my legacy in this world to be a housefull of stuff my kids are left to deal with, things that I can send back out in the world that other people need or can use.

[Jesus] said to them, ‘… life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.’ (Luke 12:15 NIV)

Live More Simply

I have a house full of stuff I don't use. Clothes I don't wear, books I won't read again, DVDs I don't watch. We still have boxes in the loft which remained unpacked from moving house nearly 8 years ago. Why?
At the moment, with little to no time for housework, it just feels like "stuff". I often wish I had time to remove everything from my house and only put back the things we really need, but when I do attempt to throw things away a "just in case" mentality creeps in and I worry that as soon as I throw something away I'll need it.
There are probably very few things we're hanging on to that we need and my main goal when my training ends is to declutter the house from top to bottom, inside and out.