Welcome July 21, 2003 Issue

Your money—or your way of life?

Bettie Gray

Yesterday on the commuter train , I was glancing through a current magazine article titled "Making Friends with Your Finances" because of its relation to the focus of this week's Sentinel. I was a little amazed at the following comment: "Certainly I can find security in a plump annuity, but also in the relationships I cultivate with others, with my own soul, and with God" (Jon Spayde, Utne, p. 57). Spayde went on to quote Friedrich Nietzsche: "He who knows the why of his life can make do with almost any how." Finding such radical and spiritually based statements in a secular magazine article was both surprising and refreshing.

Those ideas struck me as far above the usual depiction of money matters as an up-and-down, in-and-out, now-you-see-it, now-you-don't kind of carnival ride. And more manageable than thinking of economic concerns as so complicated and esoteric that you need an advanced degree even to begin to understand where to invest your money ... or your hopes.

We hope you'll invest some of your valuable time and thought in this issue. Our writers have delved into some pretty radical ideas on the connection between what you think and how you prosper. Their ideas bear spiritual import based on Bible truths such as "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also" (Matt. 6:21), and on the ideas of Mary Baker Eddy, such as "Soul [God] has infinite resources with which to bless mankind ..." (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 60).

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