It’s amazing how much stuff we have

Did you know that there are 300,000 items in the average American home?

And that we consume twice stuff than we did 50 years ago?

Reminds me of this:

Which reminds me of this:

Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. Sell your possessions, and give alms; provide yourselves with purses that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. (Lk 12:32–34).

Which reminds me of this:

The two men who have the credit, apparently, of having first perceived
something of what was happening in the world of the soul were a solid
and wealthy citizen named Bernard of Quintaville and a canon from a
neighbouring church named Peter. It is the more to their credit because
Francis, if one may put it so, was by this time wallowing in poverty and
association with lepers and ragged mendicants; and the two were men with
much to give up; the one of comforts in the world and the other of
ambition in the church. Bernard the rich burgher did quite literally and
finally sell all he had and give it to the poor. Peter did even more;
for he descended from a chair of spiritual authority, probably when he
was already a man of mature years and therefore of fixed mental habits,
to follow an extravagant young eccentric whom most people probably
regarded as a maniac. What it was which they had caught a glimpse, of
which Francis had seen the glory, may be suggested later so far as it
can be suggested at all. At this stage we need profess to see no more
than all Assisi saw, and that something not altogether unworthy of
comment. The citizens of Assisi only saw the camel go in triumph through
the eye of the needle and God do impossible things because to him all
things were possible; only a priest who rent his robes like the Publican
and not like the Pharisee and a rich man who went away joyful, for he
had no possessions. – G.K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi