Treaures and counting down...

We are counting down the days until movers will be swarming all around our home and will be loading our stuff onto a big box truck...12 days to be precise (February 20 and 21). Apparently we are not the only folks heading south. Our stuff is going to be loaded over two days and each day it will be transferred to a tractor trailer and on that tractor trailer there could be one or two more households! We wish they could just do it in one fell swoop but the tractor trailer will not fit down our driveway. So it will be stretched out over 2 days but that's ok with us. They will leave our beds for us for the final night here on Goode Road and we can clean where they have taken stuff away. 

All this focus on our stuff, taking inventory, boxes, tape, bubble wrap, packing up our stuff (!) leaves me scratching my head.Where is our real treasure? It is certainly not our stuff. We have lived for eight months without several boxes of stuff that I packed to leave some empty space for our showings. Shocker! Nope. Here on earth, our treasures are our children, our loved ones, family members, friends, relationships, memories, and Jesus - these are all things that cannot be stolen, eaten, destroyed, bubble wrapped, packed, taped, labeled or shipped! Matthew 6 says, "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." So here's to several more days of packing all of our stuff but keeping in mind that my real treasures cannot be packed and shipped. Thanks, Lord, for our family, friends, relationships, memories and for You, Father...and for our stuff, too! Now does anyone know what to do with an old onion, a jar of pepperocini, cornstarch, pickling salt, steel cut oats, and a box of smoked oysters?