Are We Rich?

Yesterday, during lunch, I asked my middle son Zephaniah a question to see what he would say. I asked him if we were rich? He quickly answered, "No." Then I went on to ask him how many blankets we have in this house. He answered with a crazy number like, 578,000. So I then asked him, how many does he really need to have? He said, one. So I told him then we must be rich. I explained to him that children in Haiti do not even have one blanket to lay on at night and how friends of ours are making blankets to send them so they don't have to sleep on the dirt. Then I asked him how many pillows we have in the house. Again, a crazy number like, 875,437. I asked him how many he sleeps with. He said, two. I asked him if he knew that there are children all over the world who do not even have one pillow for their head. I could tell he was surprised and couldn't really imagine that. I continued with this line of questioning, a little bit more. I could tell he was then getting the point. So I asked him again, "Are we rich?" This time he said, "This is like where the word rich has two meanings." "The first meaning is that you have lots of money." " The second meaning for rich is that you have enough of things."

He surprised me with his reasoning. I really liked how he answered the question. I hope that I can keep this in mind each day, as I struggle with the battle of needs vs. wants. Yes, like Zeph says, I am rich.......I have enough things! Are you rich?