Easy Virtue? Category: Faith

Having just done an assembly on St Francis (yes, the St Francis) and planted thoughts in young minds about the difference between wants and needs, wealth and happiness etc etc I was jolted back to reality on my way home.

Two friends of mine have recently got married, and as I drove home I passed their current home, which they have part-excanged with the developers, and the new one being built for them. I find it hard to understand why they feel the need to trade up. There are only the two of them, so why a bigger house?

The point? Who am I to comment? Yes, we lived in a three-bed semi before. It was big enough, but it came with the post. We've always rented before. We live in a very nice large house, which we can't keep clean. And again it comes with the job. Add in the fact that it will be quite a long time (if ever) before we get anywhere close to being able to buy a property.

Encouraging others to a virtuous course of action, which you yourself are not in a position to able to choose, is hardly tenable. Discuss.  ¶ 8:46 am