Some friends of ours recently moved to a bigger place close to the boy's school which has started to turn some mental wheels for us about moving. We are currently comfortable (except for the occasional fiasco as 3 toddlers have potty at the same time with only 1 bathroom) in our current home but know that the day is quickly appoaching when our boys are going to reach bohemouth heighth and I am having fun imagining them laying with thier feet hanging out of their spaceship bunk beds touching their heads to one wall and feet to the other. Then I am fear the day when Wubitu actually wants to spend time on her hair and the arguements and I am sure antics that will follow from only having 1 bathroom. However, as I lay out my wants I am still a bit stricken by how petty my wants are compared to the worlds wants:
I want to live closer to the boys school to save th $100 in gas and 1 1/2 hours in the car
.......however people all over the world would love to just be able to send thier children to a school ANYWHERE
I want more restrooms......however people in Ethiopia would be overjoyed for even clean water for 1 day
I want more square footage.....many families all over the world live in a home the size of my living room with 11 people and a cow all sleeping/eating and living together in harmony
I want to live close to a park......you get the point
So I waiver back and forth on this issue of wanting...and learning to be content. God has blessed us mightly in our eyes and the eyes of the majority of the world who lives without these homes, food, warmth and water....where do you draw the line between "need" and "greed"on our part? After seeing the poverty with my own eyes, will I ever be able to reconcile the inequality of wealth and guilt for being the "haves" when there are so many "have nots"? Is it okay to continue to increase our comfort if it within our means, when we could give it to the starving? Arggg...the more I write the more I wrestle with myself....