How Much.....is 'Enough'?

Having lunch with my son, Chad, yesterday gave us a chance to catch up on

some of the 'things of life' around us involving family, business, dreams,

and the 'priorities of life'....

We do this periodically....kinda of a 'reality character check'....

Chad is busy with his own company and working far into the night is common for him but the rewards of his 'hard work' pays off and he

has seen many of his 'material dreams' come true...

Yet he has others.......

Our conversation boiled down to....

"How much is enough? and.....What is the actual 'cost' of having....things?

Being the avid 'reader' that I am....I found an old

philosophical type devotional from a 'sage thinker' that

addressed these same issues of life....

I will paraphrase from....Captured by Mystery by:Alvin Rogness....

........."If we must be held captive to anything....why not a flower? Why to an automobile, a mink coat, a boat, a bank acount? Among the thousands of things that we can see, touch and which constantly has the ability to 'enslave' us....why not be in 'bondage to'....a flower, a waterfall, a sunrise, a rainbow, even a thriving garden of vegetables for good health?

Poor misguided man/woman......us! Let me give you an example...'Riveted behind the steering wheel of his speeding car, eyes glued to an endless ribbon of gray concrete, he wheels by unnoticed the myriads of daffodils and roses that flank his course. Arriving at his lakeside 'dream', he makes frenzied preparation for a cruise around the lakeshore in his powerboat heedless of the blur of shoreline which hides a wonderland of color and form in a thousand tender flowers and plants... '

'Not me', you say! When was the last time you have let your eyes rest upon a flaming sunset or scanned the wonders of the stars! Who among us has last caressed the pedals of a flower or given our ear to the symphony of sound as the birds greet the arrival of a spring morn? We gape in awe at a skyscraper and remain oblivious to the majestic sweep of the lavish handiwork of God's beautiful nature.

Is it not Enough?