In the gospel of Matthew, Jesus meets the “rich, young ruler.” In the course of their conversation, Jesus instructs the man to give away his fortune. Matthew comments that, “when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.” I know how he feels. While my sorrow is motivated by physical exhaustion rather than spiritual seeking, I too am burdened by great possessions. Honestly, we try to maintain rather than replace and we are fairly budget conscious, but the crap piles up anyway. And never is it more evident than when you try to move. I've been moving out of 420 Grand and my mother-in-law, Alice, is selling her house and moving to Dallas. (That is the first line of a new country song I'm writing.) Every weekend seems to be spent hauling things in and out of our two storage units. Two! Embarrassing. At any rate, the other day I noticed this tiny house and began to covet it (another attitude Jesus had something to say about). But, if we're going to trade The Homestead (below) for the tiny house (above), we're going to need to give away our fortune.
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