Our household shipment from Beijing finally arrived in Texas and after a week of hard labor, everything is unpacked. So now what? Our garage had been full of boxes and the house is overflowing with stuff. Add in our things from storage and we don’t have room to put it all! If that wasn’t enough to deal with, the couch we bought swallowed the living room and a huge dining room table will arrive next week!
With all the moving we did in the military and State Department, Susan is good at “settling in” and soon had the first floor put in order. The problem is, even after decorating the bedrooms we still have enough things to decorate another whole house! We tried to share our abundance with our daughter, but she already has enough. Susan’s sisters took some, but they barely made a dent in our excess.
Don’t get me wrong. These things are valuable to us. They remind us of people we know and places we have been around the world, most we will never see again. The things aren’t the problem, but there is just too much. We are looking forward to the neighborhood yard sale to ease the burden of “too much of a good thing.”
Two things you will never get too much of, is the power and the love of GOD. When you need Him, He is “able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think” (Eph 3:20 NKJV). Before we even knew we needed Him, “God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16 KJV). Those “good things” will never be “too much,” because we can always cast our burden on Him and tap into that very power and love to help us!
Wayne Lance (2016)