Thursday, September 5, 2013

I guess this entry is mostly for me.  It will be my effort to crystallize my thinking on this idea that came to me this morning in the hopes that it gets into my head and works on me as I try to understand it.  It is the result of something that happened 'on our mission' last night.  There is this family in our ward...it turned out that the 3 sisters (including Sheila) came together to counsel this husband and wife.  They have every problem that you can imagine, but the most crucial problem is that she cannot control her spending and on a limited fixed income is chronically way behind.  This gets to her husband who abuses her (vocally and emotionally) so she complains and gets him thrown into jail.  Their health is a very real issue along with everything else that you can think of.  Anyway, my thought had to do with me, not them.  I was looking inside myself as deeply as I could and imagined that with enough money I could solved the problem.  That bothered me.  The 'you can buy anything with money' is not the answer.  I know something of the 'other' resources and I really do value them so much more.  But I have to make some more progress in that to make 'it' the thing of my imaginations.  This conundrum is very real to me, and even makes sense to me.  So here is another project for me to work on.  How, I don't know.  But I will changed and be changed.  I hope to come to see those 'other resources' as the only way to meet life. 

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