This week's quote:
"We have made a conscious decision
to not be upwardly mobile."
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| Downton Abby is my dream home, LOL |
I love love love this! It has been a salve to my heart and has deeply challenged me.
Tim and I were chatting with some like-minded friends a couple years ago about their family members not understanding why they wouldn't want to be moving up the American food chain. You know the drill: bigger house, better neighborhood, nicer car, fancier schools, cabin, boat, etc. etc.
I love this ideal so, so very much b/c it forces me to think about what I value and what I want to teach my boys to value. This idea is counter-cultural and I think that's a good thing! I am raising my family in a super-sized society where everything just gets bigger and bigger, from the bag of baby carrots at Costco to our homes and the storage units where we keep our "extra" stuff.
I am so thankful to be an American and to be free to experience that privileges that come with my citizenship; they are many.
But bigger isn't always better.
There is nothing overtly wrong with a big house and I am all for God's blessings and sometimes that looks like a really big house. But keeping up with the Joneses is over-rated and really bad for our state of mind. I know that its always good for me to challenge the motives of my heart. Just b/c I can have something, does it mean I ought to? When does an indulgence become an over-indulgence?
I want to be able to ask myself these hard questions rather than asking myself what my "goal neighborhood" is.
I also want to get better at practicing the art of contentment. Especially in a world where it's really easy to be uncontent.
Since I do love a two-for-one, here's another quote from my Jackson: "I want what I want." (usually said in a high-pitched whiney voice)
Isn't that the truth for all of us?!
We want what we want.
I want to want what God wants.
I want to get better at wanting what God wants.
Happy Friday, ya'll!
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