Never ask your husband to get the oil changed! (Part 1)
In 1995, Kathy and her sister, Virginia, decided to take a three-week European vacation. While traveling in Venice, Kathy decided to call back home. She asked her then husband how things were going. He sighed and replied, "Not well. The police have just confiscated your car!"
"What!" Kathy exclaimed. "Come on, you're playing a practical joke on me, right?"
"No." Her husband went on to say, "I did what you asked me to do and took the Blazer into the Chevy dealer for an oil change. While servicing it, they ran the VIN number and it came up stolen. The police have impounded your car and sold it for scrap metal!"
"That's absurd! I have a title to the vehicle. I've owned it for three years. I'm still making car payments on it! What am I supposed to do now?" Unexpectedly, the calling card time expired and abruptly disconnected the call. In bewilderment, Kathy squeezed out of the sardine-sized Italian phone booth and blurted out, "How could this be? I own the car!"
(To be continued...Stay tuned to next week's issue for the rest of the story!)
Lenny has observed humans and has noticed that people think they own all their stuff. Some people become too attached and even define themselves by what they "think" they own. Just because people have a car in the garage doesn't mean it belongs to them. Just because people walk into a nice home every night, it doesn't mean they have property rights. And just because people have kids, it doesn't mean they own them! None of us really owns anything in life. At best, we may be blessed with "temporary possession" of some things for a while, but in reality, we leave this earth owning nothing.
Lenny's Challenge: Take 60 seconds and ask yourself, "What do I really own? Have I become too attached to worldly things? Do I have a tendency to define myself by what I think I own? Do I consider all my material possessions and/or my family members mine or do I recognize that I have only been given 'temporary possession' of them for a while? How can I be more respectful and honor the temporary blessings and gifts that life offers every day?"
Realizing everything in life is, at best, a "temporary possession" is 100% your choice! Shed or You’re Dead™!