Anna M. Aquino

Many years ago when we got my car we walked out nothing short of a classic miracle story of a divine plan and some appearing to be crazy circumstances.   Dan and I had been in need of a vehicle.   We’d planted some seed toward it.   I happened to be visiting my parents in Ohio for a wedding, and got in touch with a friend of the family who is employed by a dealership and has always gotten us great deals on cars.   Long story short though I had plans to fly back to FL, after spending time on the phone with Dan and the family friend (sometimes at the same time) we ended up purchasing this vehicle at the same amount we’d sown seed for over the dealer price.   However they’d needed Dan's signature for the car loan, so my mother, oldest daughter, and myself were permitted to take it on a really “long test drive” to Florida.   So my mother could get Dan’s signature on the paperwork, and fly back to Ohio.   Dan bought the car sight unseen.   Through a...

  Last weekend my family and I felt the need to start purging some things in the house.   We started the piles of: “Things we are keeping”, “Things we are selling”, “and Things that are getting thrown out”.   Dan took on the role of helping the kids while I started listing things on Craigslist.   It’s amazing when you go through your home once in a while the piles of stuff you find.   It’s amazing all the little doodad’s and trinkets that once seemed so valuable suddenly don’t.   Sometimes we can so worry about gaining all the stuff:   Like are these the right color for my couch, or did I get it on sale and could have gotten more off, or what if I give so and so another Christmas present they don’t like.   We get so caught up in collecting our Stuff that we forget; we can’t take this stuff into eternity with us.   One day on this earth all that will be left of us on the earth is the stuff of our lives.   I’m not about to say ...