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America is the wealthiest country on earth! (God bless her…)

or is she?

What is wealth?  Is it the having of goods?  Is it the having of large quantities of money?  Is it the having of unassailable security?

In part yes.

The real measure of wealth is having things which we value (regardless of the measure of value that others place on those same things).

Wealth is the thing that marketers infer that you’ll have when you buy their products.

• Free time
• strong and functional friendships and familial relationships
• well developed intellectual and physical capabilities
• stability
• psychological well being (i.e. freedom from fear, healed wounds, self-confidence, freedom from anxiety, freedom from uncontrollable anger … freedom… Galations 5:1)
• spiritual and philosophical understanding of who we are, what we were made for and where we are going
• the having of adequate shelter
• the having of nutritious food (not just something that fills our stomachs and stimulates our taste buds)
• the having of functional things which help us obtain the above items
• the having of non-functional things which give us pleasure solely in their beauty

Are we as a people wealthy?  Are you wealthy?  Do you even know what it means to be wealthy?  Will your 401k and your salary really give you what you want or will they be just another means to an end?

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