What are people thinking? I wonder about this very thing at times.
"He works driving truck, and she works as a nurse," so the conversation goes. "Well, she took a new position. She doesn't like it as well, but it pays better...I don't know why that makes a difference..."
It is almost a national past time the making of more money. Couples have a baby, and almost immediately the baby is slapped into daycare so the woman can 'go back to work', because we all know you can't live on one salary...
You would expect that these people are living hand to mouth so to speak. They must be barely paying bills, and living on beans, rice, and hot dogs, or so it sounds. It is getting tough I'll admit making ends meet. Prices are rising, jobs are pretty precious, but...
Here are some questions, or exercises to help you focus. To help each person to put things into perspective.
What do you value? What would be your list of priorities be? The things in your life that if the whole world fell apart you would not want to lose? For example for myself this order would run like this:
*God--God is the stay of my life. Without God and Jesus nothing else makes sense.
*Family--next to God they are the most important priorities, the most precious things in my life.
*Home--not so much a 'house', but where and how we reside.
You see, in the long run, even though a comfortable nest egg would be...well, it would be comfortable, it isn't the most important thing in life. What is really important isn't the things we accumulate. It isn't the fabulous house, car, boat, flat screen T.V., satellite dish, most modern kitchen, fancy computer...that list can go on indefinitely.
Matthew 6:25 Therefore I say unto you, be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than the food, and the body than the raiment?
In life, why is it we put so much value on vain things? Leave a comment, don't forget to join the conversation.
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