{"id":4476,"date":"2011-03-13T23:20:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-13T23:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4476"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:36:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:36:25","slug":"day-120-change-buckets-from-vegas-throw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4476","title":{"rendered":"Day 120 – Change Buckets from Vegas (Throw)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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MGM Grand.\u00a0 Caesar’s Palace.\u00a0 The Venetian.\u00a0 Mandalay Bay. I’m not even sure which trip to Vegas these cups represent.\u00a0 I think I’ve been three times.\u00a0 I don’t gamble, but I do get a big kick out of just walking around Las Vegas.\u00a0 It’s a people-watcher’s paradise.\u00a0 And a bizarre Disney World for adults.\u00a0 No place else compares. These cups were just sitting on a shelf in my closet and I went looking for something easy to throw since I was tired and didn’t feel like dealing with the whole Throw, Give, Sell thing – but also didn’t want to break my streak.\u00a0 It has occurred to me … that, at\u00a0120 days into this experiment,\u00a0I am still mainly giving up things (like these cups) that I don’t really use and have ZERO attachment to.\u00a0 The time is coming when I’m going to have to get more serious about this. I read in my Bible recently the Parable of the Sower.\u00a0 The third place the seed was scattered really struck me this time around:\u00a0 “Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants, so that they did not bear grain.” (Mark 4: 7)\u00a0 This is the first time I’ve noticed that this soil\u00a0DOES result in a plant that survives (unlike the path and rocky soil)\u00a0but\u00a0the plant does\u00a0NOT accomplish anything worthwhile with that life.\u00a0 In verse 19 Jesus explains this soil: “The worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful.” It’s still hard to let go of THINGS, so I pray that at this point in my life that I would grow more and more desirous of being fruitful and less and less desirous of being comfortable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MGM Grand.\u00a0 Caesar’s Palace.\u00a0 The Venetian.\u00a0 Mandalay Bay. I’m not even sure which trip to Vegas these cups represent.\u00a0 I think I’ve been three times.\u00a0 I don’t gamble, but I do get a big kick out of just walking around Las Vegas.\u00a0 It’s a people-watcher’s paradise.\u00a0 And a bizarre Disney World for adults.\u00a0 No place […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4478,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4476\/revisions\/4478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}