The Attic

Did you know that the Elevation Church office has an Attic? When we built out the office space we wisely beefed up the size of the ceiling joists and slapped some plywood on top so that we could store stuff. Pretty common solution for storage I suppose but here is the problem: when you have a lot of storage it generally gets filled. And that is how the saga of our Attic begins...

There was a day long ago when the Attic was a wide open frontier of storage capacity; a veritable Mecca for various sundry items that shouldn't be thrown away, but didn't need to be kept in business. But just like land in South Charlotte, once the word got out that there was space available...you get the idea! So before three sermon series had passed, the Attic found itself buried under bottomless piles of junk! Everything from nylon die-cut streamers and shag carpets to bullhorns, boxes and baptismal heaters.

About a month ago, we (Joel Salter, Chunks Corbett and myself) cleaned out the Attic in our office and then set up some rules for what goes up and what simply gets thrown away. Our attic is now organized. The ironic thing is, even though there's about a tenth as much stuff we use it ten times as much.

Isn't this like our lives? We start off with a blank slate of opportunity but as time progresses we stuff more things into it until eventually there's no room left; from the outside our lives look full, but in reality they're not really being used. Maybe it's time to clean out the attic?

"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth where moth and rust destroy, and thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven..." - Matthew 6:19-20