Nov
Take and Use
As many of you know, I am very concerned with matters of prosperity and of overcoming poverty. People can climb from need to plenty. I believe that the problem of poverty is not a lack of money, but a mental attitude, a culture and a way of life. The surest way for a person to defeat poverty is to change his thinking and his habits.
One of the problems for many who seek prosperity is guilt. They feel guilt that they have plenty while others are in need. I frequently encounter a problem concerning people who refuse to enjoy their well-being because of this guilt. They are reluctant to use that which they have been given.
Nobody has yet come up with the answer to poverty. We do not know why some are given much and others are needy. Rich or poor, there is one thing we need to do. We need to take and use the good that is sent to us. Take and use it for our benefit. Take and use if for the benefit of our loved ones. If opportunity arises, take it and use it. Whether you get a set of cheap hand tools or an expensive suite of power tools, take and use it. If you have a chance for a nice vacation, take and use it. That which is put within your grasp is there for a reason.
Take it and use it.
The greatest show of gratitude is it make good use of the gifts you receive. Thankfulness is an action as well as a sentiment. Take that which is given and use it. Use it wisely, use it to your benefit. There is a reason you have it. Fulfill that reason by using it.
Take and use!
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Our prosperity always contributes to the prosperity of others. The more we spend, take and use, the more we contribute to opportunity for others. Even luxuries contribute to the flow of wealth.
For instance, baseball is more than highly-paid professional ballplayers. Baseball is also the people who work in the stadiums, the people who sell the hats and jerseys, and the people who make them. Because we pay for baseball, thousands of average people have jobs. Baseball pays those who make the hats and shirts. Baseball pays the people who take tickets, who work the concession stands and who run through the arena selling hot dogs and beer. Many thousands of people who have nothing to do with the playing make a living. It is all because folks like you and me can afford a cap, shirt, ticket and hot dogs.
If people were not prosperous enough to support baseball, tens of thousands of people would be out of work.
We improve conditions for others when we prosper. If we deny ourselves prosperity out of some sense of guilt for the poor, we become part of the problem rather than part of the solution. The way to make things better is to accept prosperity and to take and use that which comes to us.
