Jonathan Edwards

Tuesday forenoon, November 26, 1723
“It is a most evil and pernicious practice, in the meditations of afflictions, to sit ruminating on the aggravations of the affliction, and reckoning up the evil, dark, circumstances thereof, and dwelling long on the dark side: it doubles and trebles the affliction. And so when speaking of them to others, to make them as bad as we can, and use our eloquence to set forth our own troubles, is to be all the while making new troubles, and feeding and pampering the old; whereas the contrary practice would starve our affliction. If we dwelt on the bright side of things in our thoughts, and extenuated them all that we possibly could, when speaking of them, we should think little of them ourselves, and the affliction would really, in a great measure vanish away.” Jonathan Edwards
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Downsizing

In the news lately we hear of ways that people are dealing with the economic crisis.

People are downsizing their cars and homes. People are going room by room and getting rid of clutter, even their clothes closets have been put on a diet. We are told how people are helping each other not to gather clutter as they shop (in other words being accountable to each other). Many express the freedom they have with less or living minimalistic. What does the Bible say about compulsivity and then de-cluttering of our lives?

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