Where is your treasure?

“Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.”

                                                                        Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

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Is it true

That we find our joy in what we love?

What if we love the wrong things?

What if we love power

Or money?

Is our treasure our true treasure?

It has also been said

That where our treasure is our heart will be also

Perhaps it is more true that our heart follows

treasure, rather than that our hearts create treasure

Treasure it appears can capture, and bind

And subdue the heart

Or perhaps what we treasure reveals our hearts

I was thinking the other day about our nation

And where it puts its “treasure”

If our heart is where our treasure is, what does that mean

Where does most of our treasure go?

If where our heart is, there is our treasure

Does that mean our heart is in war (since the majority of our money goes to the military)?

Is our heart is prisons?

In border walls

It is a conundrum

To think that our “treasure” is in such things

Since our heart as revealed by our spending

is found in such things

It seems that there must be a better place to put our hearts

Better places to creature, or discover, our treasure

What if our treasure were people?

If our hearts were in people

Would we not be putting our resources, our energy, our focus

Into healthcare?

Caring for the poor?

Helping the vulnerable?

Would not such acts of kindness

And service be what we treasure?

But lest I pontificate

What does my calendar reveal?

My check book?

Where do I put my heart?

What do I consider my treasure, really?

Something to think about

In the dark