wrecked.

Y’all…I am reading this book and it is absolutely wrecking me, in a great, great way. It’s called “7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess” by Jen Hatmaker. If you are like me and really wrestling with living a life of excess, being focused on ridiculous things (or even not on ridiculous things!!), or just trying to figure out how to simplify your life, this is the book for you. I’m not going to go into the book a lot, but in short, it’s Jen talking about how she and her family identified 7 areas of excess in their lives, assigned a month to each of those areas and learned lessons from these experiments. I’m telling you…it will wreck you. Chris and I need to have some serious conversations and make some serious changes, and this book is just confirming it.

I feel like so often we get caught up in chasing the “dream”: having more money, having a big house, having the coolest “Pinteresty” decorations, cool clothes, purses…you name it, you know what I am talking about. I am not saying that wanting to have a successful career (heck, I absolutely LOVE what I do and absolutely want to be successful in it!) and some nice things is a bag thing, but they can absolutely own us and what we are living for. Jen quotes:

“What does it communicate when half the global population lives on less than $2 a day, and we can’t manage a fulfilling life on twenty-five thousand times that amount? Fifty thousand times that amount? It says we have too much, and it is ruining us.”

This quote hit me square in the chest. Recently I have been complaining about how we need more money, or we need this, or we need that, and I have really realized that we absolutely do not need any of these things, and what we really need is to be more faithful with what we have. One thing I am praying God helps me get a hold on is being faithful and generous with what I have, I don’t need any more, I want the Lord to be enough for me.

Honestly, I wish I could just type out all of the sections I have highlighted in this book to share it with you, but that would take me hours and hours, so all I can say is go get this book. I pray that I put my pride and selfishness to the side and really listen to the nudges the Lord is giving me in regards to excess in my life…how I long to be free of it!

More on this later…I’m stuck.