I read a really great thing on my facebook page last week.
Someone wrote, “This person is so poor, all they have is money.” Suddenly I realised just how easily we are fooled into thinking that money is the key to happiness. On a flight back from Cape Town a few months ago I read a line that I never will forget. “Money by itself does not fill a vacuum, instead money often creates a vacuum.”
The Bible says that “the love of money is the root of all evil”. So true, we see it every day.
If you are healthy, have food in your stomach, a roof over your head and peace in your heart, you are wealthy.
A few years ago I risked my life to drive my car to the bottom-end of Munsieville, where the poorest of the poor live.
My heart was broken to see how people live. But then, like a ray of sunshine, as I looked into the beautiful eyes of a young child as he accepted a blanket, the smile was bigger than any that I have seen in our affluent areas.
I drove away wondering what I had lost through my personal pursuit of more. What is wealth really?
