Beth's Ponderings
Do you have items
in your home that you have been given as gifts, or perhaps that you bought,
that you just can’t bare to use because:
- they
are too good
- you
don’t want to wear them out
- you
don’t want them to get broken
- if
you use them, you might not be able to get a replacement
- they
are only for special occasions
- they
have special memories that you don’t want to forget
- opening
the packaging will lower the (perceived) value
or any other excuse you may have for not using them.
Yet, just hanging
onto these items doesn’t really preserve them in a brand new condition. Over the years, the items could still end up:
- broken
- dried
up
- faded
- melted
- obsolete,
if replacement parts are needed
- expired,
and then it could becomes a health risk
- devalued,
even if in its original packaging
- subject
to weather events (ie flooding) or insects
or any other condition that could render the item useless
The other day I
heard a comment along the lines that the belongings in our lives WANT to be
used by us right now, or they wouldn’t have come to us.
What is one item
that you have been saving that you could use today? What one item could you take out of its
wrapping, or box, and put to the use it was originally intended?
Because items are
without value if they aren’t being used - or appreciated - in some tangible way.
And we have no way
of know what might be coming to us next, and it could be even better than what
we’ve been holding onto, but we won’t know, until we use what we already have.
Beth
Read the complete issue of The Chautauqua here: https://sites.google.com/site/thechautauqua25/home/September%2021%2C%202018%20Chautauqua.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1
