Submitted by St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
There is something very spiritual about sifting through all the “stuff” in our homes. St Pauls Thrift Sale and Dumpster Day is a way of bringing more attentiveness to what we are choosing to hold onto and what we are willing to let go of.
Over the years, as things come into our lives, we often don’t realize how tightly we come to hold onto them. The sorting through of our stuff invites us to ponder anew whether perhaps we have become ready to release our grasp, to loosen our grip on something that we once considered so precious.
We become able to imagine that greater freedom might be found in dispossession rather than possession.
And as we sort through our physical stuff, thinking intentionally about what to keep and what to discard, we are, in a way, also sorting through our own “spiritual stuff” as well. For every object we keep represents some part of ourselves, our lives, and our memories that in one way or another we are not quite finished with yet.
If we have really learned the lesson an object has to teach us, fully integrated it into our souls, do we still need the object?
Thrift sales and “dumpster days” benefit St. Paul’s parish and our community in very practical ways, but they also benefit our souls by helping us notice the real gifts we have been given. To cherish what matters most, and let go of our attachments to stuff that it turns out we really no longer need.
It’s a spring cleaning for our cellars and for our spirits.
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church appreciates donations and labor in helping to make this coming weekend’s Thrift Sale and Dumpster Day a big success!
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