Just passing through

 I saw this in Mike Woodruff’s ‘Friday Update’ last week and want to (try to) remember it:

A tourist meeting a well-known rabbi was surprised by the austerity of the famous scholar’s home. A table, a chair, and a bed comprised the entirety of his furnishings. "Is this all you have?" the tourist asked. “Yes,” said the rabbi, before noting that the tourist also had only a few belongings with him. "But I’m just passing through" the man explained. "So am I," said the rabbi. (BTW, so are you.)

Man, I wish I could have a perspective like that. I like to think we live a fairly simple life, but we have a lot of stuff! Shoot, I HAVE a lot of stuff!! For some reason I’ve always been attached to things - more sentimentally than because they’re necessarily nice. 

It’s hard trying to live in this world and be of another world at the same time. So hard, in fact, that we need a Savior to even attempt it…