Tearing Down Idols....

Can you idolize a dish? Tonight I had a horrifically difficult lesson to learn about not placing too much store in earthly things. Speaking purely hypothetically of course, someone you know may be having dental surgery and you may fix a meal for her family and you may put it in your most prized and precious serving dish only to have it returned with an unsitely chip in it. You just never know how people will treat your most important treasures. They could even allow teenage boys to wash them, carelessly throwing it around in the sink. Caring not that you paid at least $5 for a 20 piece set at a garage sale and that you bought it from a friends garage sale in your beloved home town of Independence, Missouri and how that dish brought you warm and pleasant memories of happy spring morning garage saling with your best friend...*sigh*...it is a difficult lesson, to be sure. But I'll try to deal with it. Now I know not to place store in earthly things.