Have you heard about the millionaire who is giving away the fortune that made him miserable?
Karl Rabeder is a 47-year-old businessman in Austria. He and his wife live in an Alpine lakeside villa when they're not driving his Audi A8 to his farmhouse estate. Now he's selling everything he has, donating the proceeds to charities he has established in Central and South America.
"My idea is to have nothing left. Absolutely nothing," he told The Telegraph. "Money is counterproductive -- it prevents happiness to come." Rabeder came to his conclusion while on a vacation in Hawaii: "It was the biggest shock in my life, when I realized how horrible, soulless and without feeling the five-star lifestyle is." Now that he's selling his possessions, he says he feels "free, the opposite of heavy." He and his wife will live in a small wooden hut in the mountains or a tiny apartment in Innsbruck.
Lent is the historic Christian response to the "soulless" state of our lives apart from God. There are more than 2.1 billion Christians in the world; between 80 and 90 percent of them are observing Lent again this year. Why? What is Lent? Where did it come from? Is it relevant for you?
Lent is typically defined as the 40-day period preceding Easter, a
time of prayer and spiritual commitment in which Christians prepare to
celebrate the Resurrection. "Lent" comes from an old Anglo-Saxon word lencten, meaning "spring."
Source: Jim Denison, The Associated Baptist Press
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