Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.
Francis Chan
The world is more magical, less predictable, more autonomous, less controllable, more varied, less simple, more infinite, less knowable, more wonderfully troubling than we could have imagined being able to tolerate when we were young.
James Hollis, Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life
real riches
We often measure wealth by what’s left in our bank account at the end of the month, which might leave many of us feeling rather poor. But what if we measured wealth differently? What if we measured wealth by the amount of pleasure we find in simple things? What if we measured wealth by the joy we experience in our relationships? By the meaningfulness we find in our work? By the beauty that surrounds us? By the dreams we still hold onto in our imagination? Or by the depth of contentedness we feel in our hearts?
Money certainly matters in a material world, but true wealth is much bigger than just currency and far more accessible to all of us. May we each find the real riches our abundant God desires for us in the year ahead.
I'm the dad of 3 awesome kids and a great son and daughter-in-law, the husband of 1 incredible woman, a God-follower in the way of Jesus, and the Tribal Elder of a community of leaders who want to help people live life as it was meant to be lived.
