I felt the same way when I returned from Ethiopia 2 years ago, looking around my house and wondering why exactly we have SO MUCH STUFF! And now returning from the Dominican Republic it feels much the same.
This week it's clothes, ruthlessly gone through. Four large garbage bags. One trip to drop them off for donation.
Yet, we still have plenty to wear!
While in the Dominican Republic we met people with so much less than most of us in America but with more joy than most of us, too.
One can't help but start to thinking, whose lives are really better?
They may not have electricity or water they can drink from their faucets or 2 cars per household, but I saw thankfulness and love shining bright from so many of the people we met.
Our kids from our church noticed it too, without any of us adults pointing it out. One 15 year old American boy commented during our trip, "They have less than anybody I know back home, but they are happier than most people I know."
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