Investing Resources

One of the often lamentable conditions of mortality is that we have a limited amount of resources in time, energy and means. We cannot do everything we would/should/could do for others or ourselves. Spending our resources in one place means they are not spent in another. Time spent doing something reduces the time spent on other possibilities. Energy spent in one pursuit means it cannot be spent in another.

The relentless challenge or opportunity of life is to choose when and how to expend, or invest, those resources. And each investment has some type of return. Some of those returns are life giving and sustaining, others carry the seeds of death; perhaps for us, perhaps for others, perhaps for things, perhaps for relationships, perhaps for opportunities. Therefore investments should be thoughtfully made.

Rarely, if ever, do we see a very high percentage of the implications of our expenditures.