awake my soul.

i love throwing things away. when i clean, i literally take everything, analyze if i've used it in the past 10 years/will use it, and then throw it out or put it away respectively. my mom wanted me to clean the back porch up, but it became much too frustrating because everything was something that we "might" use. i decided to move into the kitchen and donated what i could, and threw out what i couldn't. it felt so good to just get rid of the clutter, but at the same time it made me feel a little sad. we were literally just throwing hundreds of dollars spent on food and appliances out because we could no longer use or had no use for them. it made me think of all of the people around the world that have nothing, and how terrible it was that the garbage bag of food was so much fuller than the box we were donating. i think i want to go food shopping this week and buy some canned goods for some people in my community. working at the food pantry upstate, i saw the value of food first hand and how appreciative those receiving it were. i'm just so grateful that my family and friends have been blessed with everything we have. imagine if everyone in a neighborhood just donated a few cans or jars of food?