I love to shop, magazines, stores, or online. It is urged on by my mood. I have recently had an awakening after emptying cabinets and closets. I have too much stuff and a lot of clutter to clean out. Clutter and stuff, stuff, and more stuff. It was so pretty on the store shelf, or it was my mother's vase or her mother's, or the shell I found on the beach the day my camera washed away while I was picking up shells, and so on and so on. I have placed value on things that are not important and it is time to clean out a lot more than my closets. There's only one way to begin and that is to go straight to the only one who can help me resist temptation.
Heavenly Father,
Deliver me. Lead me not into temptation. Not is the key word, NO. Teach me how to see more clearly with new eyes, dear Lord, those things which I do not need. Help me to see the need of others instead of the desires of my selfish self. Remind me of the dresses still hanging in the closet and the multitude of clothes I recently gave to Charity, that I need nothing more, that you will not let me die of cold, or from the lack of knick knacks. You, dear Lord, give me all that I need. Lead me NOT into temptation.
Amen
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