Gratituesday

Unplugging the dam...
In causeways all across this nation there is a movement a foot.
To open hands and hearts.
There is also the opposing to hold on and dig in.

It had been my life to be the one with a trunk full of unneeded goods that all my friends had open rights too.
Anytime I would visit someone it was the norm to say I have some stuff I am finished with , or have need of no longer out in the trunk, come see if there is anything you can find use of.

This the topic of my Gratituesday.
With that occurrence coupled with the stress and just plain lack of time and energy we have become clogged with means.
Funny thing how being given so much there is much required of us.
After ceasing the home school dream and following into Gods plan for our kids it has been excruciating to let go of the classroom of things worked so hard for.
It is so difficult to give away the garmets I hope one day to fit into.
Knowing with the cost of goods it may never be that I will have access to then again. It is hard to know what to give and what to hold onto. Yet there is a time for everything under the sun.
Reality is that in the early 50's your earning power decreases significantly.

Just over five years ago my sweet husband lost his 25+ career when the plant shut down and he was on of the last of 6000 men and women who lost their jobs.
We went down 2/3 rd's in income.
Yet we are making it and blessed abundantly.

All across this nation it is happening again now to so many many families.
When this happened for us it cause a clog in the dam.
The flow was diverted into the fear of possible want.
"One day we may need this and we will not have the means to acquire it"
Yes, there is a truth to that, yet balance needs be acquired as well.

This clog in the dam and the busy life that stops the flow...
This is what I am tending to today.
It is with great relief I am letting go.
It is a freedom.
It is trust.
Faith.
Love.
It is time.