When Less is More
There were advertisements, segments on talk shows, news stories, even live shots on opening day. When the only bookstore in our city’s most prestigious shopping mall closed, a new exciting store quickly took its place.
What would wealthy, educated Americans want more than access to the latest in literary arts?
Containers, of course!
The opening of The Container Store was about as big as the day the doors were unlocked at the new Nordstrom.
But then it makes perfect sense. After a stop and shop at Nords, a person needs somewhere to put all the new purchases.
I’m not knocking the new container store; it’s a pretty clever concept, I am however, making fun of our inherent need for such specialized nooks. We’ve got a bunch of stuff and now we need more places to put it. How many of those storage facilities have cropped up across the country? They’re everywhere! You can even get a look at what’s in some of them on “Storage Wars”, yet another reality show, this time allowing us to be voyeurs into the secret stash of a recently repossessed storage unit. When you lose your stuff, because you had so much stuff you could no longer afford your stuff, that just might be…too much stuff.
Maybe I’m a little sensitive to the subject since I’m currently studying the New Testament book of James, and today’s lesson was on hoarding and self-indulgence. I guess it could be a touch of Spring Fever since the daffodils are poking their little yellow heads up way ahead of schedule. 
Or maybe it’s because we’ve accumulated so much stuff in the square footage God has given us, that we don’t have room for it all.
Clutter makes me crazy!
What ever is causing this feeling; I wonder if The Container Store has a place for me to put it?
“In part, hoarding means withholding what we don’t even use from others who’d treasure it. All of us are accustomed to the saying “use it or lose it” but, the fact is, we’re going to lose it anyway. We’re not taking one ounce of this stuff with us when we die.”
~Beth Moore
James: Mercy Triumphs/LifeWay Press*
“Even if I pay all my bills and rightly pay every laborer I employ, is not my superfluous spending on myself when others need the basics for survival a contradiction of loving my neighbor as myself?”
~Melissa Moore Fitzpatrick
(Beth’s daughter)
James: Mercy Triumphs/LifeWay Press*
Beth’s Advice: When we get something new, something has to go.
I’m WAY behind on that one.
How about you? 🙂
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