MY PINK PURSE

I love my pink purse. Its the purse I tend to carry everywhere all the time. I noticed it was getting heavy today. After lugging it around Planet Exchange in Nashville (where by the way I found a pair of stilleto Steve Madden shoes for $13.75 and I love deals like that cause Mom will buy them for me) I decided to clean it out. My purse that is. I found three quarters which means I can now go to the laundry matt instead of washing out my clothes in the bathtub.....remember I'm a poor college kid. At least they will get to go around the washing machine even if they don't have soap...wonder what would happen if I just put a drop of shampoo in with them? Never mind...on with the purse story. I found an old piece of gum with lint all over it. A receipt from Dec. 2005. A hair clip I had been looking for and thought I had lost. Keys to my old car. A key I have no idea where it goes. A church bulletin from Easter. Three inkpens, one unsharpened pencil, and a pencil stub with no eraser. Three empty purse size hand lotion cream from Bath and Body works. Dental floss...you're probably saying yick...but hey it was unused. A watch that no longer tells time...I am going to keep it and check for a new battery. An eye mask that my kewl aunt in PA gave me when I was there the last time. A post card from the Grand Canyon and a little petrified rock that was once a little tree that I bought at a tourist spot in AZ. No wonder my purse was heavy. I was carrying around a lot of weight I did'nt need to be carrying. I just had to clean it out.

How much stuff do we carry around in life needlessly? Jesus cares for us. Why do we keep those burdens when we can just give them to Jesus? Those worries about the test tommorrow, those worries about being alone, the worries about not having enough money, the worries that no one is going to like us. Why don't we just give them all to Jesus? Clean out your life.....give it to Jesus.....casting all your cares upon him for he careth for you.