New Toys, Like New Car?

My husband was out in the parking lot of Toys R Us yesterday, while I went in to look for a play vacuum for our daughter, and I called him while in the store and said, " It's 20 bucks.. think I could find one at a garage sale?"

 Then when I got back to the car I told him how I saw the same xylophone toy we got for our daughter for $.50 at a garage sale last summer for a regular price of 18.99 there! He said, Buying New Toys is like Buying a new car... STUPID!! 

 But think about it? Isn't more less, and less is even better when it's cheaper?! 

 Toys with kids are like new cars… as soon as you buy them they can get scuffed up chewed up … or what to me seems the worst, not played with at all. I’ve gotten a few comments now on how clean our house is with a toddler… I think what most people mean is how do you keep all her toys organized and cleaned? 

Easy…. She doesn’t have a lot of toys… ( but that changes based on every individuals perspective, because somewhere out there.. plenty of kids have less then her too) which brings me to my next piece …

 Do you have everything you need? 

 Need and want.. always such a battle between the two isn’t? You start with I want, then a few more sentences inside your head justifying your need and then before you know it your want turned into a need and boom its on credit of some sort… This family's story really spoke to me and got me thinking and saying to myself, Yes Lord, I do have everything I need, and that's found in you.

 Check out this inspiring story about a family of FOUR who Live in a 168 sq foot home!! (Its only a few minutes worth it!!)

 My personal example of falling into the curse of the worldly ways was just a month after having Riley. I started thinking about the idea of having 2 kids in our home. Because of the overwhelming push of accessorizing everything when you have a baby, I said this house is WAY TO SMALL!! 

 What a crazy thing to think about when we have 4 bedrooms in this house... 2 kids each could have their own room, and we have 2 bathrooms... isn't that already more than enough? I started realizing it's so much better to be content with what you have instead of always wanting more and more and more. Not to say it's not hard, because that is the push of our world. And with all of us hooked up to the internet it's a pool of temptations. The same goes for me with toys for Riley. 

So quickly they add up and get shoved to all the corners of every room until they are overflowing and you start to say to your kid, YOU HAVE TOO MANY TOYS!! .... funny thing isn't? You think as parents to your child, I've given you all these things, you have all these toys, and you want to play with a spoon? Or all these toys and you want more? I'm sure God has the same thoughts.... he's given us all these things here on earth, all these natural beautiful things, and sometimes we don't care because we want more.... 

Why do we want more? 

Are we looking over our shoulder at someone else? 

Maybe we want more spiritually.. and not sure how to fill that void. 

 Man has created all these distractions all these material things that take us away from all the natural things.. Funny when you think about how our food is shifting and we are now demanding more "natural food" How did it get to be that we are hoping the food we eat and put into our bodies is REAL? We have everything we need... we are just letting the worldly things cover it up.

 Salvation isn't found in stuff. 

Let the one who created who who knows what brings the greatest joy to your soul, fill you up and guide you. 

 When you think about the Bible, do you think it's simply a message about how to get to heaven?

 Or does it also hold a message for the here and now that radically changes how we should live, today, right now?

 "Don't store up treasures here on earth where they can erode away or may be stolen. Store them in heaven where they will never lose their value." Matthew 6:19-20..