Learning from Misty
I am a pack rat by nature. I recently found a track uniform from my freshman year in High School…been through 4 moves and somehow is still with me. I have no use for it…it doesn’t fit, yet I still find myself naturally unwilling to part with much of anything.
Well, my wife cured me of much of that sickness early in our marraige. I simply wasn’t allowed to keep plaid pants that I wore in the days when Ska was cool. Or shirts that had excessive pit stains (I had some serious contenders in that arena), even though I had once loved them, they had to go. So I’m ok with it now. I do ok with parting with my stuff.
Today my family crashed my house to clean my basement in preparation for construction starting next week. We are building a studio down there so I can do the bulk of the recording for the Anthem of Hope worship album (our second major product release, scheduled for late next year). I was so appreciative of the help…and despite my natural tendencies towards pack-rat-dom, I did a good job of purging the unneccesary items from my life. Unfortunately, that purge is probably going to cost me a pretty penny in dumpster fees :)
On a serious note though, I found a few books in the shuffle. One of which was a devotional book of Misty’s. I found some scripture highlighted and I wanted to share it. This was one that she had blocked out in yellow with a highlighter.
Peter 3:3-4a
3 Don’t be concerned about the outward beauty of fancy hairstyles, expensive jewelry, or beautiful clothes. 4 You should clothe yourselves instead with the beauty that comes from within…
The cool part is that she lived that, everyday.
