It's the STUFFFF.

"Keep your life free from the love of money, and be content with what you have." Hebrews 13:5

A day of reckoning. Bernie Madoff sentenced to 150 years.

Travelin' light, now we can catch the wind.
Travelin' light, just let your mind pretend.
We can go to paradise,
Maybe once, maybe twice.
Travelin' light is the only way to fly. JJ Cale

It's no wonder why so many of us are in debt. If the select few (1.4 million in the US) are suffering from Compulsive Hoarding Syndrome, the rest of us are buying our ridiculously huge square foot homes and filling them with equally large mass produced furniture, stocking the walk-in pantries with canned meat (cause we can), and in turn purchasing the extended cab, dual tank, DVD equipped hulks to take us from point A to point B idling at the unplanned and unsynced traffic lights while  walloping one hell of a carbon footprint. 

 All this accumulation in the name of wealth and success?? Does it serve you?

Two cars down and a home mortgage or two to go....

Pulled in delicately through a Car Max drive through with key and title in hand, left triumphantly a little lighter with a cut check and a smile.

After all New York's a walking town. And I'm trimming the fat.

My husband. My well being. My freedom are the riches I'm seeking today.

“Somehow in life we must know 
that we must seek first the kingdom of God, 
and then all of those other things—clothes, houses, cars—
will be added unto us. 
But the problem is all too many people fail to put first things first. 
They don’t keep a sharp line of demarcation 
between the things of life and the ends of life.” MLK 

“A man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions”  Luke 12:15

If you thought about your material wealth, what "thing"would be essential to your happiness?