The one thing I notice, just in my small workplace, is that my boss has aplenty and is never satisfied nor seems to take joy in anything at all. She is always striving to make more money or to attain a higher position in life. She rarely smiles and almost never laughs.
There is also another co-worker that has not quite so much but more than enough to get by but has little real joy in life either...always seems stressed and angry about many things.
Then there is one with whom I work who makes very little and her life is full of one catastrophe after another....she also seems to have much stress and strife, very little true joy in her life.
It would seem that it is all for nothing if you cannot learn to be content with whatever God gives you in this life. Rich or poor really means nothing in regards to having a good life.
I know a lady who is a paraplegic, is very poor and is mostly bed bound. But she has a phone mounted on the wall over her bed...with that phone she offers comfort to all her neighbors, shut-ins, the elderly and sick. She provides a network for those in need and she goes out of her way to do for others....all from a very small and dark room in a little old house in the country. She is always ready with a smile and a good word for her family and friends...of which she has made many.
Her children~all boys~care for her tenderly and lovingly, cleaning her and applying dressings to her sores. What life she has been given she is enjoying to the fullest and doesn't count any day as being wasted. Stress? What's that? She doesn't seem to have any!
