These 40 days can be a time of PARING BACK. I encourage you during the season of Lent to cut back and simplify your life. Get rid of things you don’t use or need. Somebody somewhere has a use for your cast offs and extras. De-clutter your life. Make things less complicated. Say no to unnecessary things, while saying yes to things that are valuable and precious. I heard a friend of mine say this recently. “Be frugal with yourself and lavish with others!” I love that! Most of us have way more than we need. Truly you could take away half of our clothes, and still have more than enough! So by saying yes to less, we are saying yes to freedom. Stuff doesn’t have to have a hold on us. When we grab onto that fact, we are actually saying yes to freedom. What we are doing is giving ourselves more room for margin in our lives. Some might call it breathing room. When we have space to breathe, because we have less stuff, we give ourselves room for our kids, our spouses, and our extended families. What used to take up our time, can be redirected to people! It is relationships that really matter in the end. Stuff comes and goes. Our families are with us for the long haul. Let’s make our greatest investment in people not stuff! So pare back on stuff, and focus on family, friends, and relationships.
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