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A Wealthy Woman
by Joe Mazzella
I got to meet a wonderful person the other day.
I had stopped to buy a local newspaper from a
machine when I saw a middle-aged lady already there.
She had a handful of quarters and was slowly buying
paper after paper gently closing the machine after
each purchase. She smiled at me and explained that
her daughter’s picture was in the paper. She was
getting copies for all the members of her extended family.
When she turned to leave I noticed a hole in her shoe
and realized that the rest of her clothes had also seen
better days. She climbed into her rusty, 20 year old
pick-up truck and after 30 seconds of trying finally
got it started. She smiled at me again and waved as she
drove off. It occurred to me as she disappeared in the
distance that she had never once thought of taking the
extra papers she needed while only paying for one. It
was then that I realized I had just met one of the
richest people in the world.
I only wish that everyone in this world had this lady’s
wisdom and wealth. She was rich beyond measure in all
the important things in life. She was rich in honesty,
integrity, goodness, kindness, cheerfulness, joy, and love.
She was rich in family and in friends. She was rich most of
all in oneness with God. It didn’t matter if her truck was old,
her clothes were worn, and her dollars were few. She was rich in
her heart and soul, and she possessed within her the wealth of
an entire Kingdom: the Kingdom of Heaven.
The next time you find yourself thinking and worrying
about money then remember that the real riches in this
world can’t be bought. They must be chosen in your heart,
created in your soul, and shared in your life. They are
the love of God and the joy of living. And the more you
give them away the more you receive them back in this
life and in the next.
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