G.K. Chesterton says it so well:
"Living in a world that worships swiftness and success no longer means living in a world of new things. Rather it means living in a world of old things; of things that very swiftly grow old. The actual sensation of novelty lasts for a much shorter time than it does in a world where there are fewer sensations." Illustrated London News, August 3, 1935
Evidence of this in our day are the stuffed closets, attics, and garages - overflowing into rental storage units that pervade our cities. All full of things that were once new and treasured, now broken and abandoned as our cast off surplus. Too busy to enjoy a few simple necessities, we rush to acquire, clean, preserve, sort and store our vast hoards that we really don't treasure. For if they were treasure, it would be enough. We'd stop the rush to acquire, clean, sort, and store. We would enjoy. We live among old, broken things that smother our capacity to truly savor authentic, lasting treasure.
Mr. Chesterton said it well, but Christ says it even better:
"Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal; for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
Matthew 6:20-21
Treasure the ancient truth of God, which is new every morning...
