Wants vs Needs

CeCe Quinn
Just wanted to share quick something that happened to me this past weekend...
I was packing up my daily clothes that I plan on wearing and found myself crying and extremely emotional while "DECIDING" what to bring for clothes. I began realizing that I have such an enormous amount of OVERAGE in my life of things to CHOOSE from. What shoes to wear, what pants to wear, sweat shirt to wear, sock, jackets, shirts...t-shirt to day or long sleeve...
what jewelry to wear...excess beyond imagination.
Don't we all to some degree...?
I was convicted of the STUFF I have and where we will be going and the differences in my day to day of choices verses the Haitian Families we will be engaging with....
What I am going to make for dinner tonight...stew, steak, chicken, pasta....
the food I toss at the end of a meal...the amount of food I eat....

WOW...I was so humbled this weekend while packing.
Understand, we do not need to wait to begin debriefing until we get home from our trip...begin now to pray for our lives that we might be mindful of what we NEED in our lives and what we WANT...
We often fee like we NEED something, but I have found that often those are not NEEDS but things I desire to have.
Please note, that it is not wrong to want something beyond our needs, but to choose wisely and to be constantly aware of what we might just be able to do with our surplus of STUFF in our lives that we have and what we might be able to do for others if we stretched our Wants to what we could do for others (neighbors, co-workers, enemies) when we return from Haiti.