to sweaters. I'm doing some serious cleaning right now (before I get to paint my room...yay!) and went through my clothes today. The amount of sweaters I own is ridiculous. I was already slightly aware of this because I clothed literally half of the Jazz Panthers for the Christmas HuB night, but today I found a separate tub of sweaters I had forgotten about. I need a separate closet for all of them. The really silly thing is that half of them ended up in the Goodwill pile...which is where I bought them in the first place. But hey, the fact that I can get rid of them means I'm not a hoarder, right?
While I'm on the topic of excess and being fortunate enough to have excess, I want to share a realization I had recently while mowing the lawn. It was pretty hot out and I was very thirsty. I didn't want to walk all the way inside (that would have required me to go up stairs...) so I decided to drink out of the hose. Since the last time I drank out of the hose was probably 10 years ago, I had completely forgotten how delicious hose water is. It's cold and and the way it rushes out makes it very refreshing. I then began to think about how blessed I am to be able to pick a hose out of the mud on the side of my house and expect clean, cold, refreshing water to come out when a majority of the world doesn't even trust the water that comes out of their sinks! In six weeks, I am going to the 13th poorest country in the world, where we will have to purify our drinking water every single morning--this is a major luxury there. This totally puts things into a new perspective. Needless to say, I am so grateful for the life I have been given!
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