Sabbath Messages > Sabbath Message: October 22, 2005
Good Sabbath
October 22, 2005
Had to write and share: Fran and I trained up to Santa Barbara, where Fran met some lovely wives of executives and directors of a rapidly growing homebuilding organization. I spent a couple of days at the client's retreat in a tiny community of Los Olivos, where horses and wine are the mainstay. People have moved there, for their first, second or third home to be in less crowded environment, where a taste of wine or breathing the marvelous air of nature at her best, can resurrect worn lungs, fatigued brain, and restless ambition.
I learned, many years ago, that businesses need souls, just as humans do, that without a soul there are no ethics or morality; with a soul there is the best chance that growth will exceed ambition, for there is always inspiration in what makes them grow, like product that is called "h o m e"-the greatest retail word ever invented. A home is the sense of achievement--at any age; it is what youth and deprivation longs for and what retirement covets.
There are researchers who calculate and collect statistics that they convert into analysis, but it is only when they humanize these numbers into human beings, that any insight may emerge. Humans of any age wish a home to represent achievement, comfort, safety, emotional security, family togetherness, and a kind blessing from a benevolent God. It has evolved into "investment" as it can be the largest asset that a family can possess. It has currently replaced the stock market as the place in which to invest and hold, for it is unique, in that it is the product in which humans find habitat by occupying it. Even vacation homes are owned longer so that succeeding generations have another connection with the past.
When a "retreat" morphs from math into human satisfactions, then that retreat will promote organizational maturation and perspective that no numbers can match or connote.
So, as human weakness seeks to control our thoughts, inciting depression, disgust and degeneration, then it's time for the mind to "retreat" into thoughtfulness, along with an enthusiastic search for solutions and human togetherness, which will extend family and fulfill destiny.
Have a great week!
sandy
