Antidote for Greed

Gratitude is the only antidote for greed.
To want more, newer, prettier,
better, higher, larger, sweeter,
longer, faster, stronger, is human.
It's time for me to say "Enough."
Jesus did.
He said, "Enough!"
God's love is enough, and should be.
How many times have things not gone
"right" for me, and (sometimes) years
later I realized it was all for the best?
Will I ever learn?
When will I let go, and let God?
Open my hands to Heaven, stop grabbing
at the new "pretty" that catches
my eye?
I have lived 27,429,000 seconds to date.
How many (or few) of them have I spent on God /
His people, His lessons? I lament my wasted minutes,
hours, years, decades. My life of selfish desires,
saying yes to myself and no to HIM.
How much time have I lost
staring at electrical images that mean nothing.
My God, my God, why have I forsaken You ?!
Oh, the list is long; of what I have vainly spent
my gift of life on.
But here I am.
I am HERE,
right now,
for a reason.
May I thank HIM now?
for a few heartbeats?
One,
two,
three...
A breath...
in and out?
Can I thank God
for being God?
Can I want what it is
my Savior wants, what
I need?
Jewels of Heavenly worth.
Pearls before swine,
Forgive, Lord of Mine.