For the love of money
I love money, don’t you? I mean who doesn’t love money right? The question is to what extreme are you willing to go for money? Will you lie? Will you cheat? Will you steal? Will you betray the love and trust of your spouse? How about your children or your parents? Perhaps a friend, you can get another friend, right? If your mother needed some repairs done to her home, would you do them free of charge or give her a discount? If you had an item given to you, that was taking up space but your child could use it, would you provide it to them or sell it to them? If your child, even though grown, was penniless, and homeless, would you give them food and shelter or send them away and give your money freely to the panhandler stranger standing on the street corner with a cardboard sign? Who and what are you willing to sacrifice for your love of money? Will you use your mother, mother-in-law, sister or brother, your friends or cousins, and other distant family members? Will you plead to them about your need for their help with no intentions of ever making any effort to pay them back? While you eat the finer foods and have fun in the town with borrowed money, or neglect your responsibilities depending on someone else to care more than you did and bail you out. Have you no morality, no conscience, no integrity? How do you sleep soundly knowing you have wronged those who trusted you? How can you face them with a clear conscience knowing all you have for them is another lie and broken promise? Maybe you feel you can sit in a church and confess your sins and all will be settled. Perhaps so between you and God, but he didn’t loan you the money did he? Maybe reverse psychology, you tell the person who loves you and knows your needs even without you asking, who helped you when no one else would, or could, that you didn’t ask for their help, it was their choice, not yours. All that you do for the love of money. It doesn’t matter if it is your money or someone else’s all that matters in your mind is you and your own selfish needs, wants, and desires. What you want, what you like, and what you need. No matter who you hurt or how many people you deceive for your love of money. One day you will see what everyone else sees, it is not money so much that you love, it is yourself. There is so much more to love in life than ourselves and money. Start out by simply loving life being selfless rather than selfish and loving those that love us.
Simply My Thoughts
Dean Butler
