Stuff

The American dream! To have it all house, car, wife great job and happiness. Oh wait I mean one house in the city one in the country and one down south. Two cars at each house and one of those have towing capacity for the toys that will fill the lifestyle where the house is located. Wife well she better be beautiful, fit, friendly and a nice rack. If she does not have these things then we will just pay for them. Great job, as long as I can work from home not any more then 40 hours a week and eat out as much as possible. Then there is happiness, how great it feels to have it all.
We want everything and we want it now. Not only do we want it but, we deserve it.
The thing is that living in America we can have it all. We can have the house or maybe even two and the toys to go along with it but it is the happiness that we lack. We are so busy keeping up with having it all we forget about what really makes us happy.

Do we own our stuff or does it own us? Are we working to pay off the house that we have second on so we can have the boat to enjoy the weekends with our family who was too busy to pack healthy food so we just grab something on the way and we will eat off paper plate that we bought at the convent store where we filled our boat pulling SUV with gas using our preferred card for .03 off per gallon form the club where I spent the last four days trying to lose weight to fit into my new swimsuit that I am going to ware after applying sunscreen at the lake before we go home early on Sunday because we have to get the lawn mowed before Monday.

We are Americans we deserve this! Maybe we need to think of clearing out the American in us and letting in more of who you are. What is your passion, what really makes you happy? Are you living your life or are you maintaining your stuff. Are we truly boating, fast food eating, and gas guzzling creatures or have we become blurred by the fog of stuff.
Is this what God intended for us, if so how many people are suffering because they see others with so much and just feel bad that they do not have the same. What makes one man more superior then the other in this kind of world? The man cleaning the convent store does he work less or not as hard? Where is his boat?
The truth is he does not have a boat, but he has stuff. Extra stuff that clutters his home, his mind and his time. Time is the only thing we have and over all we do not have very much. Life is how we spend our time.
God wants us to be fulfilled with his love, he never said that life would be easy but he did say that when you walk your life with him by your side you have everything you need.

Romans; 13, 8-14
Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for he who loves his fellowman has fulfilled the law. The commandments, “do not steal, do not murder, do not commit adultery,” and whatever other commandment there may be, are summed up in this one rule: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no harm to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
And do this, understanding the present time. The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now then when we first believed. The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of the darkness and put on the armor of light. Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy. RATHER CLOTHE YOURSELVES WITH THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, AND DO NOT THINK ABOUT HOW TO GRAFITY THE DESIRES OF THE SINFUL NATURE.