I thought many thoughts sorting antiques – mine my family’s and friends – family heirlooms yes and maybe – many thoughts including “what would I think” if I were watching someone look and touch or not value or donate and even toss my stuff. Would I care then, in Heaven, like I would now, if they didn’t match the usefulness to the stuff?

It is that saying: “So and so would be rolling over in their grave”… Really, we understand that concept, that they wouldn’t or don’t like what you are doing and it twists them when already dead… like redoing a musical piece of Beethoven would upset him.  But really, then again, maybe not. Maybe worldliness washes away with death. 

NOT rolling over – For if our deaths are LIFE AGAIN, life at rest AND blessedly LIFE WITH JESUS, then how would we NOT forgive earthly faux-paux’s which are nothing more than clearly clearing up what you don’t need. (And probably didn’t need half of it alive either – we are all like this, me too)…

Jesus said “you can’t take it with you”, especially because we DON’T NEED IT. I mean wouldn’t you react with JOY that someone might enjoy your stuff rather than it carry dust?

And for us to get upset WHILE WE ARE DEAD seems a waste of time. We will then be the dust then anyway (and not immediately the dust on the stuff left behind, unless you have detailed that for the crematorium and paid extra for dust distribution. LOL

 (I digress… )

Surely, if we were seeing the FACE OF JESUS right now, in death, in restful death, of Him holding us in His arms, would we care who is holding, *or not holding*, our earthly stuff? Would we cause drama for earthly things? Would we turn from JESUS’S FACE to look at a Mr Peanut coin bank from 1970’s plastic palooza? NO!

NO! 

(And maybe the thrift shops with our donations can reap the cash to help others)

Who’s holding our legacy too? Are we not broken people already marveling at other’s brokenness right now – but yet now, TRADE THAT THOUGHT for the HEALING that HEAVEN brings – and the HEALER Whom made/makes Heaven Harmonious. 

Jesus, yes, Jesus loves us both in forgetting and in remembering.  Surely with our loved ones and with their stuff, we can LOVE and be fair and be respectful AND NOT JUDGE. Jesus is Whom holds us from NOT rolling over in our graves – as we are held instead in His Graces. We are held forgivingly in His Love. No need to turn away from that!

So don’t remember the stuff over the person. Remember the love too. Remember the Lord in all, He gave His LIFE for Loves sake. 

Don’t turn to look anywhere but at the LOVE. 

Amen 

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Proverbs 23:4-5

Do not wear yourself out to get rich; do not trust your own cleverness. Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone, for they will surely sprout wings and fly off to the sky like an eagle.

Psalm 48

Hear this, all you peoples; listen, all who live in this world, both low and high, rich and poor alike: My mouth will speak words of wisdom; the meditation of my heart will give you understanding. I will turn my ear to a proverb; with the harp I will expound my riddle:

Why should I fear when evil days come, when wicked deceivers surround me – those who trust in their wealth and boast of their great riches? No one can redeem the life of another or give to God a ransom for them – the ransom for a life is costly, no payment is ever enough – so that they should live on forever and not see decay.

For all can see that the wise die, that the foolish and the senseless also perish, leaving their wealth to others. Their tombs will remain their houses forever, their dwellings for endless generations, though they had named lands after themselves.

People, despite their wealth, do not endure; they are like the beasts that perish.

This is the fate of those who trust in themselves, and of their followers, who approve their sayings. They are like sheep and are destined to die; death will be their shepherd (but the upright will prevail over them in the morning). Their forms will decay in the grave, far from their princely mansions.

But God will redeem me from the realm of the dead; he will surely take me to himself.

Do not be overawed when others grow rich, when the splendor of their houses increases; for they will take nothing with them when they die, their splendor will not descend with them. Though while they live they count themselves blessed – and people praise you when you prosper – they will join those who have gone before them, who will never again see the light of life.

People who have wealth but lack understanding are like the beasts that perish.

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Ecclesiastes 5:10-12

Whoever loves money never has enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income. This too is meaningless. As goods increase, so do those who consume them. And what benefit are they to the owners except to feast their eyes on them?

The sleep of a laborer is sweet, whether they eat little or much,

but as for the rich, their abundance permits them no sleep.

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1 Timothy 6:7-21 – a letter

For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that. Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

Final Charge to Timothy

But you, man of God, flee from all this, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness. Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses. In the sight of God, who gives life to everything, and of Christ Jesus, who while testifying before Pontius Pilate made the good confession, I charge you to keep this command without spot or blame until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, which God will bring about in his own time—God, the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone is immortal and who lives in unapproachable light, whom no one has seen or can see. To him be honor and might forever. Amen.

Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their hope in God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment. Command them to do good, to be rich in good deeds, and to be generous and willing to share. In this way they will lay up treasure for themselves as a firm foundation for the coming age, so that they may take hold of the life that is truly life.

Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to your care. Turn away from godless chatter and the opposing ideas of what is falsely called knowledge, which some have professed and in so doing have departed from the faith.

Grace be with you all.