{"id":133,"date":"2010-08-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/fearofwhales\/2010\/08\/storage-unit.html"},"modified":"2011-04-23T21:40:24","modified_gmt":"2011-04-24T01:40:24","slug":"storage-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/fearofwhales\/2010\/08\/storage-unit.html","title":{"rendered":"Storage Unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I bought a storage unit so I could move out of the apartment I&#039;ve  been renting and make way for a new tenant. I&#039;ll just couch surf for a  couple of weeks until I&#039;m ready to move to Kansas.<br \/>\nBut moving  into a storage unit required unpacking some of my old life that&#039;s been  in warm storage since the days when I had a real apartment. Little  things, luxuries, things I haven&#039;t needed in the year John&#039;s been  letting me stay with him, Like an alarm clock that&#039;s not my cellphone  and the pictures from my old kitchen, things that make it feel like  home. And then random things like extra soap, stamps, the coin jar from  that apartment still full of coins. All having been neatly waiting above  my mothers garage for me to get a real place again.<br \/>\nIt got me  thinking about this crazy life of mine, that requires me on a  semi-annual basis to move suddenly from the place I&#039;d been calling home  and transition.<br \/>\nHere I am looking at those pictures that were  boxed up the last time I had to get out quickly, and still they&#039;re not  ready to come out, they&#039;re going to storage until i get a trailer to  move them to Kansas. Hopefully there I&#039;ll get a nice big apartment,  without roommates, and set everything up and relax completely into my  home.<br \/>\nAnd it got me thinking &quot;Am I too attached to material  possessions?&quot; Which is an annoying idea to come to mind as one backs all  their belongings into a 5&#215;5 cell. But seriously&#8230;<br \/>\nIf I&#039;m called  to live life at a low income with limited dependability, Life not  knowing where exactly I&#039;ll live next year, then why do I keep  accumulating possessions? Is that righteous?<br \/>\nMaybe I&#039;m not supposed to settle down<br \/>\nMaybe  My life in Kansas will be just as transitional, alumni house, to dorm  room, maybe a too-small apartment while i get all the funding in&#8230;<br \/>\nBecause  Lord, If I&#039;m called to live my life on an air mattress in the back of  my truck with nothing but a change of clothes and a bible I am ready and  willing, but you&#039;ve got to let me know because if that&#039;s the case then I  really don&#039;t need an Ionic Breeze Air Purifier.<br \/>\nHere&#039;s to hoping for smoother traveling ahead!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I bought a storage unit so I could move out of the apartment I&#039;ve been renting and make way for a new tenant. I&#039;ll just couch surf for a couple of weeks until I&#039;m ready to move to Kansas. 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