Separation Anxiety
Do you still have your security blanket? Or a favorite ball hat? Or first license plate? Why? Why do you hold on to something worthless like that? Because it isn't worthless! :) You don't want to experience separation anxiety from giving something up!
Do you still have your security blanket? Or a favorite ball hat? Or first license plate? Why? Why do you hold on to something worthless like that? Because it isn't worthless! :) You don't want to experience separation anxiety from giving something up!
What you don't want to give up is not really the physical item, is it? I mean, is that stuffed animal from your first boy/girlfriend realllllllly that cute? Will you ever ever ever wear that rock band tshirt again?!? Is that painting your preschooler made worthy of that frame you bought without a coupon?!
I still keep in my car a towel that Trey carried the day before he died. He held on to it just in case he got sick while he was shopping at Five Below. It's a plain old yellow towel. Worth about 10 cents. To anyone else. To me? It is priceless!
Holding that towel instantly takes me back to that day. That place. That precious, precious moment with Trey. It's not about the towel. It's about Trey.
God has also provided many physical items branded with His message, His comfort, His love: a newborn baby, thunderstorms, corn fields, an eclipse, seasons, puppies, friends, and much, much more!
"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God." 2 Corinthians 1:3,4
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