Editorial August 16, 1999 Issue

Wants and needs

Russ Gerber

Before you tell God what you want, think about what God wants for you.

Open almost any magazine, turn on the television, and you're confronted with advertisements for so many "must have" consumer products, all targeted to meet our "needs." But we all know that simply pushing something as being absolutely essential to our lives doesn't make it so.

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