This morning in my devotional time I did a great deal of thinking about a verse that I read, and then a friend and I talked about it over a cup of coffee.  The verse was Luke 9:24:  "Whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it."  It is so easy to cling to earthly things, people, ideas, jobs and use them to define our lives.  These all may be good things, but  if I cling to them as though they were things I must have to be "who I am", then it seems this is saying they are more important than the God in whom I trust.  Am I willing to let them go?  I couldn't help but think about Job (I read that book this week), and how he was stripped of everything.  He didn't understand, but he continued to believe in God. My desire is to cling to God more than other "things"--a real challenge.