Life is interesting. I see people desperate to hold on to their stuff when they go in to a care home. We build it all up over time and get weighed down by it more and more.
I like to picture life as a walk with a hot air balloon pulling us upward, and we can choose to keep our feet firmly on the ground by loading the basket with more and more stuff, or we can start to offload the dead weight we have built up over time.
I remember the U2 song “Walk on”, and the great graphics on the video wall. A song about living the reverse, about letting go of more and more as you walk life until there is nothing left to hold you down. Home is where the heart is, too much of our heart can be in stuff. Quite fitting that they end the song with a worship verse, where the heart should be.
I was listening to “Me and Bobby McGee” again today, and there is a great line in it “Freedoms just another word for nothing left to lose.”