Rainy Days
Even those who have voluntarily given up all earthly ambition, have no interest in garnering to themselves worldly goods, can obviously be imbued with a sensitivity toward rainy days. It does no harm to plan ahead. To consider that although there is no need at the present time to hoard or to save, one may put funds away in thoughts that at some later, future date, they may be needed.
There must be a universal, inherited human trait toward feathering one's nest. A natural enough phenomenon. Just think what a social, intellectual and emotional wrench it must be for people to allow themselves to surrender to poverty. To give up all normal ambition toward acquiring goods. To reject living in comfort and plenty.
And this is just what religious do, when they decide to cloister themselves, turn away from the world, and turn their heads, their hearts and their souls to the all-encompassing worship of God, and rejection of societal norms. Dedication to the life of the pious, the holy, the seekers-after-godliness eliminates the prudent gene.
Gone the daily scrabble to earn a living and to do it well enough so that leisure and idleness also have their place in the routine of the day. Recreational pursuits, and purchasing power come to those who dedicate themselves to mammon and the good life. Hard work and enthusiastic play time.
Women who decide, for one reason or another, to give their lives to the Church, become nuns. It has come to light that sisters who lived in seclusion, spending their time in the arcane art of book-binding, alternating with worshipping their God, managed somehow to amass a fortune in 500-euros adding up to $2-million.
The Spanish convent wherein these sisters lived was recently broken into. Somehow, someone knew just where to look to find the cache of plastic bags containing all those euros. The diligent robber evidently went directly to the wardrobe where the money was concealed. Spanish nuns who have spurned the norms of society and taken a vow of genteel poverty....
They were for the most part, secluded. One among them was genuinely gifted as an artist whose paintings were much in demand, selling for up to $67,000. And it was this trade in paintings sold to the outside public said to have been responsible for the gradual accumulation of wealth for the convent.
Gone, now. They will have to content themselves with the wealth of their inner resolve, their dedication to the Holy Spirit, their communal society, their wistful thoughts of a rainy day.
There must be a universal, inherited human trait toward feathering one's nest. A natural enough phenomenon. Just think what a social, intellectual and emotional wrench it must be for people to allow themselves to surrender to poverty. To give up all normal ambition toward acquiring goods. To reject living in comfort and plenty.
And this is just what religious do, when they decide to cloister themselves, turn away from the world, and turn their heads, their hearts and their souls to the all-encompassing worship of God, and rejection of societal norms. Dedication to the life of the pious, the holy, the seekers-after-godliness eliminates the prudent gene.
Gone the daily scrabble to earn a living and to do it well enough so that leisure and idleness also have their place in the routine of the day. Recreational pursuits, and purchasing power come to those who dedicate themselves to mammon and the good life. Hard work and enthusiastic play time.
Women who decide, for one reason or another, to give their lives to the Church, become nuns. It has come to light that sisters who lived in seclusion, spending their time in the arcane art of book-binding, alternating with worshipping their God, managed somehow to amass a fortune in 500-euros adding up to $2-million.
The Spanish convent wherein these sisters lived was recently broken into. Somehow, someone knew just where to look to find the cache of plastic bags containing all those euros. The diligent robber evidently went directly to the wardrobe where the money was concealed. Spanish nuns who have spurned the norms of society and taken a vow of genteel poverty....
They were for the most part, secluded. One among them was genuinely gifted as an artist whose paintings were much in demand, selling for up to $67,000. And it was this trade in paintings sold to the outside public said to have been responsible for the gradual accumulation of wealth for the convent.
Gone, now. They will have to content themselves with the wealth of their inner resolve, their dedication to the Holy Spirit, their communal society, their wistful thoughts of a rainy day.
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