Monday, July 25, 2011

Final Steps

We leave on August 12 and are continuing to prepare ourselves for the journey. Last week, we got some necessary paperwork processed in order to live in Costa Rica. We also continue to go through boxes and boxes of stuff because we are not taking much with us. Even though it is sometimes hard to let go of material wealth, it feels liberating to purge and remember that all of the things that we accumulate do not matter and we cannot take it with us anyway when we die. My father's pastor brought home that point in last week's sermon about the rich young ruler described in Luke 18:18-30. As we are about to leave our families, friends, and “stuff” behind, the last two verses of that passage are comforting to me, “'Truly I tell you,' Jesus said to them, 'no one who has left home or wife or brothers or sisters or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God will fail to receive many times as much in this age, and in the age to come eternal life.'”