What you own really owns you.
Have you heard of that? You get your dream home, and it exhausts you with upkeep and expense. That exotic car? You worry every time the weather changes or you leave it in a parking lot.
Be careful! I just had my nails done! No, don’t give Mommy a hug. This is my new dress, and it’s very expensive.
It’s like a beautiful butterfly. You hold it in your hand, admire it, and want everyone to see the beauty of what’s yours.
Then there’s that relationship that becomes cloying or hurtful. It might even be our spouse. Our boss no longer treats us with respect … and we love our home, but our neighbors, what’s with them?
And experiences … that annual vacation … we can’t miss it. The kids expect to go there every year …
Let’s look at Ecclesiastes 3:6 before we continue this discussion:
“[There is] a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away.”
We hoard things, experiences, and people, never considering that maybe God has a new season (or direction) for us on the horizon … and the only way we can reach it is to let go of what we had before. What we collect really does own us, and sometimes we must let them go to move into God’s new thing.
Note this: Giving up on that home, that person, that experience doesn’t mean you are weak. Rather, you are smart enough and strong enough to let go and move on.
Set the butterfly free. It’s beautiful but hold it too tightly and it dies. Set it free, and your life can become what God intends it to be.
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