Not for money

Sometimes I think it’s not love that makes the world go round, but money.   We move our buts to find the dough we need to survive, live, be counted, with, in, among humanity.

One needs to present oneself decent, clean, composed,  all those needed money.  Decent clothes are not cheap.  Clean means water, soap, electricity, shampoo, food, health, all are do not come cheap.   Composed means education, breeding, not free either.

Parents break their backs to send children to school and give them a good life.  After college, kids begin their journey  for their own place in this world.  Earn money, more money, buy stuff, more stuff.

They will have their own families and must work harder to provide.  The cycle continues.

Everyday,  we talk about numbers, how much, what is the total,  what is left,  what is not there,  how much we need,  cannot afford, we lost, we gained, profit, loss, cheap, expensive,  reasonable,  budget, funds, taxes, licenses, fees, bill out, what is the cost.   All these are numbers.  Money numbers.  We utter this words in more times than we say I care, I love,  I miss.   But  this is life.  This is living.  Living in a world where success is measured by how much we have,  what one has accomplished,  and all are not free.  A world where we spend most of our days worrying or thinking about things that have value,  things that cost something.  Some numbers.

And then,  once you have this,  you spend more money guarding what you have worked so hard for.  They might get stolen, wasted, ripped off, spent.   You need to work harder to safeguard the assets you have acquired.

Yes, the material things around us are important.  These are the trappings of our material world.  We cannot live without food, houses, vehicles, clothes, cellphones.   We have learned to expect more from ourselves,  more from our environment, more from the world, more from life itself.

Our standards have become higher.   Life has become faster.    Yes, once in a while we realize we are in this seemingly unending frenzy  but we cannot stop.   The world keeps on moving.  Even if you stop,  it keeps on churning, with our without you.  So we don’t stop.  We cannot stop.  We have to be in it, on it.

In all this craziness,  we should always remind ourselves that we  were created not for money, but for love.  To  care for each other, to care for our environment, to care for the world.

For God’s greater glory.