“If you believe strongly enough in yourself and God, and don’t spend all your energies on making, questing, or worrying about money, you will get what you need when you need it.” spoke John’s mother, Josepha. And, sure enough, despite an alcoholic husband, five children to feed, the family never went hungry. They found woods where natural foods offered themselves to the family, fresh and nourishing. Josepha never allowed money or the lack of it to determine her course, her feelings, her faith. “I live each day fully. Happiness is never dependent on how much I have, but what I do with what the little I have been given.”
Josepha discovered her inner wealth “from nature walks, flower gardens, and the silence of the woods. I found refuge in books, treasures in the public library brought the outside world into my dreary one.”
Years later, and now happily married to a man of modest means, Josepha exclaims: “My new husband and I often laugh at how rich we feel.”
(Adapted from Wisdom Women in the best seller, Money as Sacrament.)
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