Comments on: What is True Prosperity?

By: Claire McAuliffe

Claire McAuliffe — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 09:07:07 +0000

I believe this lady, although appearing on the outside to “have it all together”, is limiting herself.
She is taking home a small salary because she doesn’t believe that she deserves a larger one. So in reality, she’s not prosperous.
Thanks again for another thought provoking rant!
Claire

By: Allex

Allex — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:19:54 +0000

To add to the above, if she did not only “love” her job, but strive to help people truly, she would rather start a fund which would help these women find the way to make their living themselves.

The difference lies in her fear to do anything above the “agreeable” to the society.

By: Allex

Allex — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:16:50 +0000

If her job consists solely of raising donations and spreading them between the poor, she makes the devil’s work:
she does nothing to teach the poor to fish, neither gives the rod. She only gives away the fish itself (and in strictly measured amounts too).

And her having only a very limited salary means one thing:
she’s not only immensely proud of her “generous” life, but also infinitely afraid to do anything, anything that may speck it.

Poor thing she is, both finantially, and spiritually.

By: Kristen

Kristen — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:18:02 +0000

I would like to add that, if this lady ever felt that she were “suffering” or “being noble,” then, no, she would not be prosperous. (I’ve known 6-figure doctors who feel this way–so it is not the amount a person makes that creates this condition.) However, if she is truly content, and her joy is complete with what she has and what she is doing, then she is prosperous in all ways.

By: Kristen

Kristen — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:03:18 +0000

ABSOLUTELY! Remember the Biblical example of Jesus travelling into Jerusalem. He needed a donkey, and told His disciples exactly where to find one. When He had need of it, it was there for His use. Likewise, when He had need of money to pay the temple tribute, He instructed Peter to pull the coin out of the mouth of the fish. Jesus lived a simple life, but He had precisely what He needed. Always. This is prosperity…to live in God’s blessing and grace, and be provided for as you have need. To attempt to say that this woman is “poor” because she makes $x per month is to attempt to quantify prosperity. It would be equally ludicrous to say that Randy Gage is prosperous now but was not 5 years ago, because he was not making as much then. No. To be prosperous is to live with faith, hope, and love, and to be always in God’s favor, to receive from Him precisely as we have need.

By: Michele

Michele — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:08:48 +0000

This is an incredibly accurate point. Example: I’m going though the dregs of a divorce as we speak (rather, type). I’m selling my home, dispersing my beloved equine friends, moving, starting a new job, ending another job, ending a partnership in a successful business, selling my awesome truck, and trying to decide exactly what it is that I want to “do” so badly and go back to school for it. All of this takes an immense amount of time and energy.

You know what I’d KILL for?? Discretionary time with which I can help others who need a hand somehow with something, anything. THAT is how I myself feel prosperous–when I have the time and energy to look beyond just me.

I’ll get there!

By: Michele

Michele — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:01:58 +0000

PS: I LOVE LOVE LOVE how much thought and response this topic has garnered! Way to go, people…we don’t learn and expand if we don’t share experiences, so keep ‘em coming!

By: Michele

Michele — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:58:06 +0000

I don’t know why brains work this way…but it seems that people who are in a strong financial position get more donations. Maybe looking successful is a large part of it, that people want to back a team that already seems to be winning. Why the woman would deny herself that advantage is beyond me.

By: Defining True Prosperity :: Randy Gage

Defining True Prosperity :: Randy Gage — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:29:19 +0000

[...] Let’s get back to the question I raised on the last post. I ask it BTW, because I have some mixed feelings on it myself… [...]

By: Bonny Brown

Bonny Brown — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 02:10:52 +0000

Great Thoughts in post and comments.

WOW Prosperity like all things is what we each make for ourselves.

I wonder if Mother Teresa ever had the thought of if she was being paid enough?? I don’t think so, yet she was surrounded by prosperity in spirit and in the connections she made through her work that had access to enough money to make a difference.

A great adage I live by is “its not what you do, its what you get done” so applicable to NM and life.