This week in preparation for this sermon I came across statistics for how much Proctor and Gamble spends on TV advertising each year. Guess how many of their dollars go to television? You couldn’t guess if you tried. They spend $3 Billion each year. To put that figure in perspective, it’s 50% more than gross national product of our poor neighbor to the South, Haiti. Retaining our joy in the midst of a society that becomes so obsessed with getting more and more stuff can be a real challenge. As much as we enjoy our things, they don’t bring true joy.