materialism

There was a man who was interviewed on TV once. He had won the lottery. He won a huge fortune of money. He had been dreaming of winning a million dollars, and now he had won a million dollars, and he was asked by the compere, the interviewer, “What is your next step now that you've won a million dollars?”

He said, “Earn another million.”

Our human heart may never be satisfied with those material things. The things of this world give a very fragile and insufficient security because our lives will never be fulfilled without God.

Frequently in our prayer, we can ask ourselves, “Where is my heart?” Because we know that our destination is heaven, we have to make positive and concrete acts of detachment with regard to what we own and what we use. What a wonderful example it is to give your children that sort of spirit and those values.