What do you value most?
As I create brief posts for the whole month plus a few days that I am away, I'd like to share a short story for this one. It's a
memory of an experience I had with "All that glitters is not gold."
When Frank and I moved to Arizona in 1994, for the fun of it we went panning and sluicing for gold from river banks where gold had been found in the past. Rinsing the riverbed soil was a slow, meditative process. It became exciting when the fine black soil began to sparkle with shiny, golden bits. We continued until we had only the
glittering gold bits in a small tube. Might they be gold? We got our answer when we added water and the glitter floated.
We were neither the first nor the last to be "fooled."
May we all learn from the times we were mistaken in our choices. And, now, going forward, may we recognize and avoid those things in life that
glitter like "fool's gold" and turn out to be of little value.
Even if we have real gold, it is not as valuable as life, health, loving relationships, joy, peace, hope...the wealth within us.
Wishing you wellness and true wealth, always.
With love,
Charlene
Use your gifts well and you will discover others, among them a gift that is
uniquely you.
- from The Twelve Gifts of
Birth
