Article December 20, 1969 ISSUE

Freedom from Financial Burdens

BARBARA-JEAN STINSON

Yes, there is a way to be free of chronic financial burdens. Thoreau's classic statement "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation" Walden, Chapter 1; need not seem true of our financial affairs.

An individual's longing to support his family comfortably and to lift financial burdens for others is a desire motivated and governed by Love, or God. However, if one's financial situation is not being corrected, though he is truly endeavoring to live the life of reflected Love, he needs to examine the problem more specifically. Is he accepting the mistaken belief that man is a mortal burdened with responsibility for taking care of unceasing demands?

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