A Time to Keep and a Time to Throw Away
Have you ever met someone who doesn’t like to throw things away? My husband is just such a person. He is so sentimental that he has a closet full of T-shirts and sweatshirts that no longer fit. But he can’t bear to throw them away because each one evokes a memory: a tie-dye shirt his boys made for him when they were in 6th grade, his pool team shirt, his dad’s old football sweatshirt…etc. There are some things we should indeed keep. Yet, for many of us, we hold onto some things that should have been left behind long ago. It is true, “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:… a time to keep and a time to throw away” (Ecclesiastes 3:1, 7, NIV).
