Finances

This week we talked about finances and the class discussion became very interesting to me. One girl was talking about how her family went out to eat multiple times in one week to make the move they had just made to a new state more fun. At the end of the week the father sat them all down and told them how much they had spent, and concluded that it could have bought them two tickets to Disney Land. What she said next was what I thought was the most interesting. It taught us the value of how we can either have something good now or save up for something great later.
This theme of saving for something great is seen all though out our lives, with our appetites and passions, with parenting skills with everything. The sooner it is learned, practiced and mastered, the sooner we become masters of our life.
Finances is just one of the ways to teach us how to bridal our passions, and what an effective way it is! Because we see our consequences right away and we know that we can hide from those consequence by going into debt, but they will always come back to haunt us. Another interesting thing on the positive side of finances is that living within our means gives us peace. Peace is not really described as a "rush" but just something that is there. This is the same with life as we bridal our  passions we are mostly just given a lasting peace.
This is important for us to learn because its just the fact of life. No bells or whistles no prizes really for being responsible just peace. But I think all of us that posses peace or have and are now missing it know the true value of peace is great.