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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	MM
	Date:	8/18/2009 5:52:30 PM

That is the challenge, isn't it? Everyone wants to provide for their families and sometimes having stuff is wrongly seen as the best barometer. I was lamenting with a priest once in spiritual direction the passage in the gospels about how it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. He pointed out rightly that it is not a matter of what you have, its all about where your attachments lie.

There are a good many people with significant material wealth that are not attached to it (I know a few and I admire them much). To them it is just "stuff" that they don't really own but only rent while the grass is still below them. And there a lot of people that by our standards don't have much stuff but they are overly attached to what they do have. I have tried to remember that and I tell my kids when something gets lost or broken that it is only a thing. That's why I never get bothered by dents and dings on my car or when things get accidentally broken by one of my kids. I draw the line with spilling good wine or overcooking a fine steak though!!!......guess the struggle continues......