Illness & Earning Power – Questioning the Equations

An Interview with Beth Raps April 17, 2013 Lifework Cafe: Money & Illness When illness comes to visit, your feelings about yourself, about your financial welfare and sense of security must be confronted. In truth, money concerns plague all of us, wealthy or poor. We fantasize about how we’d spend it if we had more of it, worry about not having enough for a “rainy day” (feeling stupid that the rainy day has come and we didn’t save for it!), and afraid of losing what we do have. When it comes to this currency, we have very little breathing room. Money is a currency. The root word of currency is current. Current is all about flow. In our world, money represents a flow in and out in exchange for goods or services bought or sold. IT is as simple as that. Yet, we live at the mercy of the equations that we have constructed, turning money into statements about personal worth, collapsing time with our earning potential, and the like. I use WE in this article because I am most certainly affected by these false equations. I am determined to live my life in a state of grace and trust, Read More...