Great night at Hayride/bonfire! Over 50 Singles in attendance. Thank you to Tom, Evelyn, Barb, Reinhold, Paul and all the others who made this event such a great success!
Looking forward to Bowling in Novemember. Date and time tba.....
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Fugality: Character and Prosperity
read pages 77-83 Character Matters by Mark Rutland
story of Oseola McCarty....family hospice...saved $150,000...inspiring!
Frugality is founded on the principle that all riches have limits. Burke
A society without frugality loses its capacity to evaluate what is really precious.
A society is defined by what it wastes as well as by what it wants.
story pages 79-80
Frugal or Stingy:Many identify frugality as mere thriftiness, but the thrifty can easily become stingy, then loveless, judgmental and withholding. Frugality springs from a balance view of things and life. Stinginess may actually be a lack of frugality. What passes for frugality is sometimes only an obsession with smallness and pettiness.
frugality might even result from obsession.
False Frugality always sees itself as acting virtuously by doing things that are irrational and unethical.
Stinginess can also become judgmental toward what it perceives to be the excesses of others.
God may give another liberty at one level regarding possessions that He does not give me.
True Frugality: Frugality is the opposite of reckless wastefulness. It has to do with controlled living. Think of the purpose of the thing. What is a thing's purpose and place in my life.
Consumption without frugality produces an escalating cycle of things without purpose. Frugality is about understanding the connection, the dangerous link between things and my view of life, value and others.
Studying to show ourselves approved by God,
Becky
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