One day Brother Weeps was teaching when he said, “The life of the soul is counterintuitive, certainly countercultural. The soul is meant for wise divesting.”

“What does that mean?” said a young man. “I don’t understand.”

“There is no greater pain,” said Brother Weeps, “than to get to the end of this earthly life and suddenly realize you have given yourself to the wrong things,

you have spent the bulk of your God-given inheritance on what was ultimately not worth the investment of the hours, days, years or the attention, toil, and anxiety you gave it,

and you have mistakenly built a life around the fallacy that the richest are those who in the end have the most holdings when, in fact, it is those who throughout their lives have given the most away so that in the end they are holding next to nothing.

The net worth of the soul is not calculated by subtracting what you owe from what you have, but rather by subtracting what you gave away from what you were given and coming away with a zero balance.”

~ Dan Miller, © 2020. All Rights Reserved.

⊕ Friends, thank you for taking the time to read THE ALMOND TREE. If you are nourished in any way by these reflections, please pass the word to others.

Extravagant Blessings,

Dan