Part 2 - Money. The Spiritual Discipline of Managing your Money. If you count only our waking hours, you find that, assuming a work week of 40 hours, we exchange about half of our time obtaining the money that we need to live. For some us there is more, for some less, but for virtually all of us, getting resources takes a sizeable chunk of our lives.
Most people spend four to eight years going to school acquiring skills so they can work.
If we don't work enough, we risk losing what we have. If we try to do too much, we risk losing our health and our families. We can starve if we do too little, and we can burn our selves out if we emphasize it too strongly. Even though we spend years learning how to do it and decades actually doing it, finding the right balance in our attitudes towards work and money in our lives about it is one of the most difficult acts in our culture. Since we are using so much time to accumulate resources, it becomes very important to consider the spiritual implications of how we use those resources.