He had planned to finish by noon so he could go to the mall. Then he found a big box of mementos and home furnishings from his college days. He had such fun going through them, sorting, arranging, discarding, and then using them to decorate other rooms in his house, that before he knew it, it was dinnertime.

He never made it to the mall. He had found his treasure elsewhere.

In violation of my self-imposed restriction on quoting pop stars, I have to admit that singer Sheryl Crow was quite profound when she sang, “It’s not getting what you want, it’s wanting what you’ve got.”

The re-discovery of our most precious possessions is one of the most rewarding aspects of our Lenten journey of Making Order. We are reminded that we humans can only possess a limited amount of things. And when we sort, sift, declutter and are left with only those things that really mean something to us, we can realize that we already have all we need.