Day 32 Something borrowed

 We have been living in a rented house for just under a year. The last time I was renting was when I was a student so very long ago. It's a weird thing to be doing, as someone who has owned property all my adult life.  Todays thought is short and sweet and it's about how we treat borrowed things. 


My Mum had a mantra 'neither a borrower nor a lender be'.  Until today when I looked it up I had no idea where she got that from (its actually a quote from Hamlet!) but she was true to it all her life. And I've been the same. I have never borrowed money for anything except a mortgage. And I've never really lent anything either. I give things.  Even books - which I have attempted to lend in the past. They rarely come back. So nowadays a book is given with no expectation of getting it back. 

We are about to give our borrowed house back to its owners. I'm also a landlord and I know what it's like to walk into a recently vacated property to find it filthy and damaged. So I'm a bit paranoid about leaving this house in as good, if not better, state than we found it. 

Thinking about this today I'm aware that I live in a non-permanent body on a planet that has been entrusted to my care until the owner returns to take charge of it again.  I'm pretty sure I'm not a great tenant of my body or my world.  Hey ho. Something else to work on. 




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