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If some is good, more must be better, right?

In our culture we are so accustomed to messages that tell us that bigger, taller, and faster is better. We need more of this, that and the other. A quarter pound hamburger is good. Surely the half pound must be better. We super size everything from our food to our houses, in an attempt to satisfy our emotional needs and wants.


We dream of the life we would have with more money and things. But we must realize it is only a dream. In reality, more money can very easily become a burden. Have you heard the stories of average people who win the lottery? The money brings issues and challenges they never dreamed of: taxes, investments, freeloaders, and so on. These folks spend more time worrying about their money than enjoying it.

While it is true that having more money can be a source of freedom, more often than not we rarely get to that point. Have you noticed that the more you get the more you want? For most of us acquisitiveness is a never ending cycle. When we get something, the pleasure only lasts for a moment or two. And then we move on to the next thing. Freedom with finances is determined by our choices and our orientation to the world not by the amount of money in the bank. I have seen people living in abject conditions, who experience more freedom than many of the multi-millionaires I know.

The only things for which I am certain that more is always better are the intangibles: more love, more life, more wisdom, more truth, more faith. The fact is that more stuff can never take the place of these things. More stuff will never satisfy the innate human need to be of service, to be loving and loved, to make a difference, and to know ourselves.

More is not always better. Sometime more is just more. Let us reflect on the areas of our lives in which more is really more and focus our energy and attention on those things which will truly improve the quality of our lives.

And so it is! Amen!