The time arrives to sell a piece of what is yours. An old cuckoo clock, a collectible coin, some other piece of treasure you have around the home. One idle moment of thinking how much work went into the purchase of that thing and your sale is finished. Yes, I'm talking garage sales in their season. So much stuff and so many people putting it up for sale. What took hours or days of work to earn goes up for sale at a small fraction of the cost. We sell our work so cheaply because that is all anyone will pay. Another choice being to keep everything until the home is so full that we cannot walk or even see the dresser that was once back in the corner of that room. So the annual ritual of the selling of our work begins.
As I get older and, I hope, the wisdom of the years settles into my heart, I find that I would rather sell cheaply than to be owned by my stuff. In a way, it is a part of this: "The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light." (Romans 13:12) Paul exhorts us to cast off those sins and to remove the weights of this world that burden us. Now collecting a few things is not of itself a sin, but cling to them too tightly when it is time to let them go...
We have a duty to cast off what is holding us back anytime we can do so. So yes we do sometimes sell our work cheaply, or donate it to charity, or toss it in the waste receptacle. We strive to avoid the clingy things of this Earth that one day we may return to our Lord, where He will most likely remove several burdens from us that we had quite forgotten that we carried in this life!
Have a bit less burdened day in Christ,
Bucky
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