{"id":92874,"date":"2015-06-24T00:24:08","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T07:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=92874"},"modified":"2015-06-11T18:41:54","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T01:41:54","slug":"its-amazing-how-much-stuff-we-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2015\/06\/its-amazing-how-much-stuff-we-have.html","title":{"rendered":"It’s amazing how much stuff we have"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

<\/iframe><\/p>\nWhich reminds me of this:<\/p>\n<blockquote>Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father\u2019s 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\u201334). <\/p><\/blockquote>\nWhich reminds me of this:<\/p>\n<blockquote>The two men who have the credit, apparently, of having first perceived \nsomething of what was happening in the world of the soul were a solid \nand wealthy citizen named Bernard of Quintaville and a canon from a \nneighbouring church named Peter. It is the more to their credit because \nFrancis, if one may put it so, was by this time wallowing in poverty and \nassociation with lepers and ragged mendicants; and the two were men with \nmuch to give up; the one of comforts in the world and the other of \nambition in the church. Bernard the rich burgher did quite literally and \nfinally sell all he had and give it to the poor. Peter did even more; \nfor he descended from a chair of spiritual authority, probably when he \nwas already a man of mature years and therefore of fixed mental habits, \nto follow an extravagant young eccentric whom most people probably \nregarded as a maniac. What it was which they had caught a glimpse, of \nwhich Francis had seen the glory, may be suggested later so far as it \ncan be suggested at all. At this stage we need profess to see no more \nthan all Assisi saw, and that something not altogether unworthy of \ncomment. The citizens of Assisi only saw the camel go in triumph through \nthe eye of the needle and God do impossible things because to him all \nthings were possible; only a priest who rent his robes like the Publican \nand not like the Pharisee and a rich man who went away joyful, for he \nhad no possessions. \u2013 G.K. Chesterton, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1450567169\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1450567169&linkCode=as2&tag=marksheacom-20&linkId=VJXNEHYYXPSJWDXA\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">St. Francis of Assisi<\/em><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Did you know that there are 300,000 items in the average American home? And that we consume twice\u00a0stuff than we did 50 years ago? Reminds me of this: Which reminds me of this: Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father\u2019s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. 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