"The Plan"

The Great Plan is unfolding; I am sure, exactly on schedule and exactly as it should.

Pop’s Question

For some time in my life while I was pilgrimming, I was living very free.

I didn’t pay much attention to commerce or any money transactions.

Whatever I had or whatever I earned or what I was given was OK.

I didn’t question what would happen if I ran out of dough or if I would starve or if I would never get rich or anything like that.

For a while I even had the policy of giving whatever I had as far as money was concerned away every night so I could start every morning fresh and empty—you could say, “broke”—though I didn’t think of it that way at all. For me it was just kind of an experiment in living.

One afternoon when I was explaining this to my dad (we boys called him “Pop”) he asked me why I had lived that way.

“Well, you told us kids a long time ago we shouldn’t be concerned with money.” I said.

“Yeah.” He replied, “But I never thought you’d believe me!”

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