Saving Ourselves…
Bringing clarity and vision to an overwhelmed mind in business and in life…
Where was I rushing to? A place I love to hate and hate to love…A place I couldn’t escape the rush from? Rushing to a place that I have to be…But still I was unfamiliar with seeking out the right home…
Throughout life we learn to save our resources so that when it’s needed we can put it to work right away. Growing up my parents would hand out some monthly or semi-monthly allowance that was earned. Some of my friends growing up around us had weekly allowances, and some had none. So, the fact that my parents would provide the monthly/bi-monthly allowance was a blessing. And my parents’ way of teaching us was simple, Don’t Ask. You don’t know when the allowance will come but just work as if it will come any day. My parents didn’t stick to a specific day of giving an allowance either. My day to receive my allowance was never the same day as my siblings nor was it the same thing. For instance receiving money as an allowance, we saved it because the next allowance might not be money. Very plan and simple. Don’t get attached to a resource. Very complicated because over time a resource that is scarce grows in value…
I have to admit that it took years for me to really understand what my parents were teaching us. They didn’t want us to rely specifically on money as the only resource, but to see that God (Yah) gave us the resource or the ability to produce a resource like money. Or that is how my dad put it when I finally sucked up my pride and just asked. All the years I heard my parents, grandparents, uncles, and aunts. But finally, after all these years I am hearing what they are saying, “You need to Rest”. See, my primary focus was saving this rare scarce resource (money) instead of understanding that it (money) had a job just like I did. But unlike money We are given choice on what We want and don’t want to do. As I gave more power to something truly powerless it was easy staying busy working myself to the bone. Especially for something that had no more power than what I was providing it. Over and over again hearing from my family how I look tired and after blaming it on hard work I became honest with myself. I needed to save myself from myself…I needed to rest…
I was so busy chasing bonus after bonus I burned myself out. I couldn’t really believe it to be honest and knew I had to ask. How can I be tired of a thing I was chasing after? Yep, it’s him again my dad just sitting there smoking his cigar. Seriously, my daughter and I flew out to South Carolina (my dad’s pre-retire retire state). I asked him and he said, “You need to rest.” That calm and simple even though he knew everything I was going through. It again was very simply put as he took another puff from his cigar, “When you really want to know nothing will hold you back from asking.” I was about done with Master Williams for the night. I wanted to kick my dad out of his own house, but hey I am the one who took a vacation after years to pay for cross current flight for 2 during a so-called “recession” to visit my dad. Before I would imagine these levels of life lessons talk with my dad to would be filled with fireworks going off, but lately I find myself wanting to sit with a cigar.
I can’t really write any more other than life’s lessons come, and they will go. Sometimes we get all of it and sometimes we don’t at the time. But usually, we will get it all in its due season. At moments we will be running, and it all comes and other times we are sitting and watching the sky, and everything comes together. We never know when it all comes together but it does. We never know when our allowance will be paid but it will come. Not every paycheck is the same because not every month carries the same bills. Not every relationship is the same because not every month carries the same weight.
Very plan and simple. Don’t get attached to a resource. Very complicated because over time a resource that is scarce grows in value…As he puffs on his cigar
“Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s (Yah’s) will is - His good, pleasing and perfect will.” (Romans 12:2)
