Only three shelves of books will be kept from this book shelf.
Some vintage porcelain plates and cups in these drawers, and this white water jug will be given back to my mom.
This sofa and coffee table has served us for a good 10 years, and I hope that it will be of good use for another family.
This wooden divider and the shoe cabinets will be given away.
A sturdy dining set which has served us so well the last 10 years, which I am sure will be really useful for a family.
I think by now, you might have realized that this is not a home decor, or a show and tell post on how my home looks like. If you are really curious, you can check out this post on the different areas in the house http://www.catch-fortywinks.com/category/home/
We have given away half my wardrobe of clothes, hb’s clothes to thrift shop to Salvation Army. Most of K’s toys were given to a Malay family that my parents are helping with for their church’s social concern’s ministry, and we are only keeping a couple of his favorite toys. We will be giving away K’s bed, my bed and whatever furniture that is left in the house to an organization, who will collect used furniture or appliances and gift them to less fortunate Malay families.
We are moving away from this temporary home, and this time, we have decided to move in to a room in my mom’s house, so as to reduce household expenses. I will not have a helper anymore either, as we cannot afford to pay for domestic help.
The decision to do this has been very painful, and the process is very difficult, but hb and I both know that this is necessary.
Maybe some of you may be thinking, “This must be a huge loss…”
Initially it was, and I was in tears for the first few days when we came to this decision, and I have not quite snapped out of my irritable mood the last few days.
It has been a very difficult process to have to separate all my stuff into piles of ‘things to give away,’ and ‘things that we can bring along with us to the new room’. Do I not hope that I will have our own home again? The truth is, I don’t really think so far ahead, as I get great support living with my mom and dad.
All I know is, my God will provide according to His perfect time.
After settling into our new room in my mom’s house the last two days, I realized that this is actually the most free-ing thing that I have ever done.
Why I am feeling unshackled rather than empty at the state I am in?
Here are some quotes from a book that I have found so apt for my situation at this moment, a book known as The Treasure Principle by Randy Alcorn;
‘It’s a matter of basic physics. The greater the mass, the greater the hold that mass exerts. The more things we own – the greater their total mass the more they grip us, setting us in orbit around them. Finally, like a black hole, they suck us in.’
More stuff, means more mass.
Now I have that chance to defy the hold that this mass has on me. The less mass, the less its gravitational pull, and the easier it is to escape.
Am I ready? I think I am. After all, I have moved ahead with 95% less baggage than what we used to have.
‘…we’re pilgrims, strangers, aliens on earth (Hebrews 11:13)…”Our citizenship is in heaven” (Philippians 3:20). We’re citizens of “a better country – a heavenly one” (Hebrews 11:16). Where we choose to store our treasures depends largely on where we think our home is (Matthew 6 :21)’ – Randy Alcorn
