Categories: uncategorized
Date: 13 April 2012 13:10:12
I'm currently going through the process (again) of downsizing ready for a move. This time I know I have to be ruthless and disgard an awful lot in order to move on in an appropriate way. I am going through a serious process of deciding what I "need" and so is non-negotiable, what I want (taking into account sentimental attachments and possibilities of future use/ benefit), and what I may be attached to but am best moving on from as well as what is so out of date or useless that I should have gotten rid of it years ago. I then have to decide what to do with what I'm getting rid of - whether to try and make a profit, whether to give it to others or whether just to bin. Within this there was also the question of who would benefit from what. Glad that I had some which could go to the People's Bookshop because supporting Ben and the bookshop - which is increasingly becoming a true community resource is really important to me. Some of these decisions I have been able to make on my own and some of them have included Third Party too, as she is deciding what she does and doesn't want to have in her life in the future too. It's not an easy or comfortable process but it is necessary.
There are obviously a 101 connections I could make here to the process the church is currently having to go through - in the face of a changing world and increased secularisation. I'm not going to draw them out, they are so clear that to state them would be an insult.