Guilt

I was talking and thinking about guilt today. The talk was with a fellow contract worker, and we both had to admit that we really don't work our butts off for fairly good wages - I've certainly worked harder for less money. Should I charge less because I'm good at what I do and it doesn't take me as long as it might take someone else?

We talked to a real estate agent today to get an idea of what we might want to do to sell this house. The whole bigger house thing brings guilt because I can look at pictures of how people live elsewhere and realize that I'm already way ahead of much of the world's population.

Somehow those guilt thoughts led to the general sense of you should feel guilty that I think came to me through the religio-cultural (I just made up that term, kind of goes with the flow of terms like socio-economic) way I was raised. You're a sinner. Feel guilty.

In the midst of that one more thought managed to creep in. It was this:

Maybe God wants you to feel thankful, not guilty.