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Have you ever noticed that it is always your favorite "thing" that you end up loosing or damaging? My best gloves are down to only the right hand. My favorite tea cup is the one that was knocked off of the cabinet. My silver hoop earrings became part of a pirate costume since one went missing.  Try as we may to maintain an ordered life, accidents happen. Things change. Even if we were to never remove the items from their safe keeping, the safe place could be destroyed through fire, weather, war. God graces us with things. These things range from the material to the very breath we take. Our time on earth is measured. Our use of our gifts are too. We should never hide what we are given. Our talents and treasures are meant to be used and shared. All things will pass away. What counts is how much value we personally stake in each. I can acquire new gloves. I will not be able to acquire another life. This is it and everything within it is God's gift to me. Losing material things are easy to accept when compared to the heartbreak of losing a loved one. But in each moment, I know God gives us His Grace in every loss and in Him is the Freedom to enjoy all of the other gifts yet to come. 


Brothers and sisters: you know the time; it is the hour now for you to awake from sleep. For our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed; the night is advanced, the day is at hand. Let us then throw off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light; let us conduct ourselves properly as in the day, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in promiscuity and lust, not in rivalry and jealousy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh. - Romans 13:11-14