For us, they packed up their few worldly possessions and traveled across oceans in search of a new life.

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Ministers took a vow of poverty, renounced all worldly possessions and transferred title to all their assets to a Church trust.

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They remind us that, in many ways, not only our lives but all our worldly possessions are at the mercy of Mother Nature.

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By seizing assets, criminals have no worldly possessions to enjoy and this certainly helps send out a clear message that crime does not pay.

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The thirtysomething Houston couple are trading in their lives (and most of their worldly possessions) in Texas to move to Cologne, Germany to design video games.

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