FINANCIAL SECURITY: THE TWILIGHT ZONE OF INSECURITY

How can couples (and/or individuals) develop a healthy relationship toward money and finances?

Michael Brown writes that money is a metaphor for personal energy flow. If your personal energy is blocked, chances are you will also experience either intermittent or habitual scarcities with money, or you may find that you have an abundance of money and the amount of control you exert over accumulating or manipulating money sabotages intimacy with others.

I remember being deeply in debt back in the mid 1990s and so behind the 8-ball that, even though I was in my mid-40s, I was, at the time, under such stress that I was willing to wish away almost twenty years to be of age to collect social security.

I have a friend who was given cash money from her local minister, and he reminded her that sometimes you needed a helping hand from the community and sometimes a small infusion of cash is the best contribution.

I know a friend that was working for a wealthy couple, the husband having experienced a massive stroke. His wife was paying my friend $8.50 an hour, and my friend, admittedly a "energy architect" was deeply involved with reading "My Stroke of Insight" and other illuminating materials to learn how to reach out to the stroke incapacitated husband. His wife, at a social event, was told that she was over-spending and could hire cheap help for $6.50/hour, so she terminated what could have been her best possible care in order to save $300/month.

I have a friend that, in her mid-40s, was asked by a friend "When did you take your vow of poverty".

Can we see life as a relationship with God's Economy, where we, as capable individuals, do not maintain vaults of fear to store up immense wealth, and rather take the perspective that there will be just enough money flowing to us in each moment to meet our needs.

I'd be interested in hearing from any of you regarding your stories centering around relationships with money and/or couple stories for how to remain healthy with money.

Cheers,

Howard

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