Sunday purge

Well, feeling a little overwhelmed by our excess lately. So on the way to church I made a comment that I thought we should have a Sunday purge. It would consist of everyone in our family grabbing a plastic bag and going through their things to find 25 things that they didn't use anymore. I heard their grumbles under their breath. Then we got to church and the sermon was a Rob Bell video on sharing what we have with the widows, orphans and immigrants. It went right along with what I was thinking about.
We got home from church ate lunch and everyone gathered their things in piles in the living room. The rules were, that you could only give away your own stuff and some of the things to look for were things that were to small, or you had duplicates of, or it may be something you feel like God is telling you to give up for someone else. So off we went. John gave up tools, clothes and a nice pair of football cleats. Parker picked old toys, Payton picked old toys and various little balls he had collected from where ever. I hit the kitchen pretty hard and cleaned out some cupboards. It was a good start. So all in all we are 100 items lighter. We dropped the stuff off at our favorite Mennonite resale shop knowing that the items would bring money to fund their missions in Africa. We are hoping to do it again next week.