Chasing after wealth

Fifth Thursday of Lent - Mar. 29th 2001

"The question of wealth is like chasing a rainbow.
I have hunted a rainbow in an aeroplane,
but always in the end it was just grey mist.
It seems to me that the pursuit of riches is such an
exacting task that he who strives for them must
soon forget what it was he originally hoped to acquire.
Even if he remembers, he is so old, and so weary, or both,
that the star he strove to reach turns out to be merely mist,
grey mist, and nothing more. What we thought was happiness
is so seldom what we thought it was."

Theo Stephens from "My Garden's Good Night."

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