Conforming (phase 2), Three Types of Attitude toward Possessions (step13), session 1

Our meditation will be a parable about three groups of people, each representing a different attitude toward possessions. Let us choose for our example three married couples, although the parable could speak of groups of special interests or nations, too. In this parable we speak of money, of the first vice in the triad of riches-honor-pride where all evil starts, but we could replace it by anything else, honored status, beloved persons, exterior or interior goods to which one can be attached or addicted. - Step by Step Retreats, step 13

I think that this meditation may be a lot more helpful for me - in its application - by considering something different from money itself.  This is because I think I have become attached to something, an idea that I need something in my life that God is not providing for me. On the one hand, I know and have reminded myself that this is not true, but on the other hand my longing remains. It is not an impure thing that I desire, but perhaps my desire for it is impure.

Let us see what this meditation/parable brings.