The Yardsale Queens

‘What's the matter with the clothes I'm wearing?
Can't you tell that your tie's too wide?
Maybe I should buy some old tab collars?
Welcome back to the age of jive.
Where have you been hidin' out lately, honey?
You can't dress trashy till you spend a lot of money..."

(‘Still Rock and Roll to Me’ from the 1980 album ‘Glass Houses’ by Billy Joel)

   There was a time in recent history,

                                       a time.. when it wasn't so much about 'the money'.

a time where three women would gather at the chosen meeting place…early in the morning…

                              joyful in the moment....

                                                 knowing they were once again preparing to hit the streets

   in search of the lost....
                       
                      the broken....
                                          the abandon....

                                                             !the good deal!


                They were 'The Yard Sale Queens' - my mom and her two sisters.

  They saw the value in what other people discarded..but for a few pennies.

They found great joy ( I mean these chicks were really happy about this!!)  going from home to home..

               seeing the beauty,

  

                             the usefulness...
                                                       items that were just plain valuable...treasures!!

              They just needed some t.l.c.

                a little cleaning...

maybe a couple of parts...

                                                      an investment of their time.

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 My mom has since gone Home, along with her two sisters, to our Father..

                And I can only imagine the conversation…

                                                                                the laughter.. that is going on this very moment.

As my wife and I go through her 'treasure chest', in cleaning out her house ,

         it has given me a perspective

                                               that I can choose

                                                                           or not

                                                                                          to believe. 
   

 It is that the 'Queens' weren't about things that were 'done'

                                                                             

                                                  Things that were ‘ready to go’.

Yeah, its true..

                   they didn't have much money,

 but

            I believe their hearts knew,

that money wasn't where True Joy lives.   
 

                         It was about these ‘things’ cast aside by others...

                                                       as broken....

                                                             hopeless..

                                                                  

                                                                    that were still useful.

                                                                                That could be restored.

     It's about some gals that received more,

        by investing a little bit of  the time they were given

                                       into ‘something’.

                       Something that was thought to have had lost its value..

       

                                                                    and you know.. it can be the same for us..

                                     encountering Life as we go.

                   Today.. Have a blessed day.

                           And be on the ‘lookout’

Matthew 25

 

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“The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’

                                              knowing there is a 'really Good Deal' ..

 just waiting to meet you..

                                                                                            along The Way.