Sunday, April 16, 2006

True investments


You know there is an idea that I have hung onto my whole life and that is this.......
People are investments......
invest in friendships and relationships and you will always be rich and will always have something to fall back on.....
see I am a firm believer that God gave us each other
to lean on , to worship with, to laugh with, to cry with, to play jokes on..... Why do you think Jesus did what He did... His ministry was about people .....
it was and is not about "making it on my own"

I am so very thankful for all of my friends....
I am thankful that they accept me as Gods creation and that He is the one at work in me....
we as people try to change each other to a mold that fits us and how we think.... That is not investing
think about it....
when you invest in stocks or money markets.... You don't tell the stock you invested in what to do or how to grow..... You let it mature and grow.......
because with growth comes ups and downs ....... And with any friendship or relationship
there are definite ups and downs
one thing that I strongley believe in is that people are people and we all need to mature and grow.....
some do it faster than others but that doesn't mean that the slow growers are less or that the fast growers are more...... God will regulate the speed not us.... We need to leave the gauges and buttons alone and just learn to look at His creation (us) as He does.....
well that's my opinion any way :-)

2 comments:

Tracy said...

You're right, of course. People are the most important investment that we can make. Sometimes it is hard to remember that when you are in the middle of something "important" but really thoroughly inconsecuential and you get interrupted. I have to remind myself quite often that people are more important than X.

bentwingedbird said...

Very well put, lm1.

So when are you going to open an office for counseling? :)