Selling It All

How would you feel if you felt God was asking you to sell everything you had to follow him?  Would it be hard?  What would be the hardest thing to part with? 

After deciding to make this move to Uganda, we decided that we could feasibly only take one bag per person so everything else had to go.  At first I wasn't sure how I felt about all this.  I was actually kind of excited being that I'm a minimalist.  Kristi and I have had this thing going on for the 9 years we've been married where I'm constantly asking her what we can get rid of in our home.  She usually replies, "we don't need to get rid of anything!" but every once in awhile she plays my little game.  Last summer she let me get rid our living room furniture and go "Moroccan" by filling our living room with rugs and floor pillows.  This was a different ball game.  I realized I actually like stuff!  I like stuff that makes it look like I don't have stuff.  I like having this cool little Netbook that I'm using right now because I can tuck it away and it feels like I don't have stuff....

So we're doing a moving sale right now.  We have taken everything we have (minus a suitcase worth of stuff) and priced it and filled our living room.  We put up signs around town and have had probably hundreds of people constantly coming through our doors taking our stuff.  Now that more than half of it is gone, it is feeling pretty good.  It is actually a really freeing experience.  It's funny, some times I get pious and feel good about myself for "sacrificing so much" for God and shortly after I'm humbled because I realize I am not giving to him, he's giving to me.  It is he who is doing the good work in me by giving me freedom.   

All that being said... I still have my mountain bike because no one has bought it so everything is okay :)                       - kenneth