Unfortunately, Graeme used the quote I had intended to use. This must needs be the checkered pattern workings of Providence directing me to a different quote so I chose to show this gem off. Listen here,
In a word, the nature and experience of things dictated to me, upon just reflection, that all good things of this world are no further good to us than they are for our use; and that, whatever we may heap up indeed to give others, we may enjoy as much as we can use, and no more. The most covetous, griping miser in the world would have been cured of the vice of covetousness if he had been in my case; for I possessed infinitely more than I knew what to do with. I had no room for desire, except it was of things which I had not, and they were but trifles, though, indeed, of great use to me. I had, as I hinted before, a parcel of money, as well as gold as silver, about thirty-six pounds sterling. Alas! there the nasty, sorry, useless stuff lay! I had no manner of business for it; and I often thought with myself that I would have given a handful of it for a gross of tobacco pipes; or for a hand-mill to grind my corn; nay, I would have given it all for a sixpenny-worth of turnip and carrot seed out of England, or for a handful of peas and beans and a bottle of ink. As it was, I had not the least advantage by it, or benefit from it; but there it lay in a drawer, and grew moldy with the damp of the cave in the wet seasons. And if I had had the drawer full of diamonds it had been the same case; they had been of no manner of value to me, because of no use.Excellent quote. That is basically how I feel all the time. I really don't need this money, this computer, or this car. I just need enough to eat and live: both of food and of the Word of God. That is exactly what Robinson Crusoe finds out. You ought to give this book a read for certain.
Loving the Providential Caretaker with you friends,
R. D. Thompson
