The major local news headline this week was about an industrial building not far from my studio that caught fire.  Battling the fire was extremely difficult because the building was used as a mini storage facility that seemed to the firefighters like a maze cluttered with uncountable boxes of unknown personal objects.  The fire burned a record 108 hours with 2 firemen died and 10+ more injured.  Pray that God would comfort the families of the 2 firemen sacrificed and heal those who were injured. ??

The growing popularity of mini storage facilities is a reflection of our materialism, we simply own much more stuff than we have the space for.  I witnessed this trend many years ago, when I was living in Toronto (where there’s no shortage of land like HK), I would see many warehouses along the highway being transformed into storage facilities.  It was popular because many people were starting to move from big houses to smaller apartments or townhouses and needed extra space to store their stuff.  

When will we humans understand that our materialistic lifestyle is not sustainable?  When will we understand that our life on earth is only temporary and that accumulating “treasures” here is meaningless?