Spring has come and gone…. I am still trying to read the book “It’s All Too Much” by Peter Walsh. My plan was to get everything organized in my house. I have renewed this book three times from the library. I was hoping that I would be inspired and motivated to get rid of a lot of stuff and it is not happening. After living over 20 years in the same house it is amazing how much stuff is accumulated. This is what I have managed to do…just make more piles of stuff but instead of being hidden in spaces the stuff is in the middle of the empty rooms. So I have been wondering if I ……..
….. routinely fall into the lie that the secret to a fulfilled life is the possession of more belongings and the achievement of personal gain. Joshua Becker
And if I my …..
“….. desires are not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.” C. S. Lewis
….That the reason I can not get rid of stuff is that I am too easily pleased with my possessions., that I am focusing on the wrong stuff, and worst of all that I am living a selfish life instead of a fulfilled life ….. much to ponder today.
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