FROM TODAY'S READING (10/29/2013)...
STUFF...Why do we have and/or need so much stuff?!...ponders Tammy Stump, friend of mine. She just got back to the US from a relatively inexpensive world tour...primarily of Third World countries...or at least she traveled like a Third World-er. Having experienced a few Third World short-term mission excursions myself, I could appreciate her having to reacclimate to American culture.
My dad, born in 1916, grew up part of a farming family in Linneus, Maine. Several times I recall asking him about life on the farm. One of my inquiries involved how the Rockwell farm family was affected by the 1930's Great Depression. He observed that they were hardly aware there was a depression. The vast majority of what was needed to live on was provided by their farm. Very little cash for "stuff" was needed.
1 Timothy 6:7-10 (NLT) After all, we brought nothing with us when we came into the world, and we can’t take anything with us when we leave it. So if we have enough food and clothing, let us be content. But people who long to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. And some people, craving money, have wandered from the true faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.
