We do not feel the weight of good gifts, for good gifts point back to the Giver; no, we feel the weight of trying to replace the Giver with His gifts. We feel the weight of the pride that convinced us to rely on earthly goods to relieve a spiritual need in the first place. And we find ourselves in a constant cycle of maintaining these earthly goods, of packing and moving them and sending them off to Goodwill so we can have space to buy more. We find ourselves caught work, work, working to afford them, our hands “full of toil and a striving after the wind.”4
