Comments on: Enough: Random Thoughts

By: Anita Mathias

Anita Mathias — Wed, 25 May 2011 21:42:58 +0000

Hi again, Jen, Yeah, we also did a lot of reading about what was prudent. The book, “Your Money or Your Life,” suggests that one can quit a salaried job, and go self-employed when you have six months salary in cash, and a bit of a cache too. I think the standard advice for when it's safe to quit all work is when you have ten times your annual salary in cash. Whoa! For us, it's more an issue of when we stop expanding…

By: Jennifer in OR

Jennifer in OR — Sun, 22 May 2011 05:36:26 +0000

Thanks for this! I struggle with “enough” too. I really like the business model you and Roy came up with for when to stop expanding your business. Will have to share that w/ my husband.

By: Anita Mathias

Anita Mathias — Wed, 18 May 2011 21:30:17 +0000

Hi Marcy, Something I learned from Sonship, a course I did with Bob Hopper at Grace Covenant was that it is in resting in the Father's love and unconditional acceptance that we find freedom from the slavery of never enough… giving, service, sacrifice etc.
It's a hard one to get, but somehow now that my life is so full I am less guilt-ridden about not praying enough, not studying scripture enough, not loving enough etc.

By: Marcy

Marcy — Wed, 18 May 2011 19:57:13 +0000

Good one. Enough is really hard to identify, especially given the excesses of the "Protestant work ethic" and such. There's also enough asceticism, enough giving, enough service, enough sacrifice...

And then there's extravagance and whole-heartedness, and sometimes it seems hard to know when to err on the side of this or on the side of enough.