Cl6 - Sunday News, November 30, 1980

get some help from you
about the three problem
areas that you say are very
common in trying to im-

prove relationships —
power, sex and money. My
‘first letter was about power
straggies and now I want to
pose some questions about
money.

Money has always been a
problem to me. I spend a lot
of time and energy over not
having it or about how to get
it. P's nearly always afraid
about my debts, or afraid
about running up debts, or
afraid of some catastrophe
that will leave me penniless.
I worry and plan and work
and stew about money. How
does this affect my
relationships? Well, I tend to
be sort of stingy for one
thing. Fm really not stingy
but I'm afraid of being
generous. Then, because |
don’t like being stingy, the
day after I've been very
careful about how much I

Meet the

QUESTION:

Are you acquainted with
PPC? It is a program to
combat some of the dif-
ficulties im schools. I have
heard just enough about it to
catch my interest, but I don’t
know Ef it is in use In Canada.
STEW ART:

I know very little about it.
PPC stands for Positive Peer
Culture. It was first in-
troduced in Canada _ in

nearly always followed up

with my being a spendthrift
beyond all sense. I worry

one day sbout being
niggardly and the next about
being a big spender. So —
where money ts concerned,
I'm hardly ever really happy.
I guess I'm suffering the
results of the old Biblical
saying, “Money &s the root of
all evil.” Have you got some
suggestions for me?

STEWART: To seek an-
swers on this complex topic
we would need to take part
in an unhurried series of
talks rather than a brief
answer as part of a short
column. However, here are
a few ideas for you to think
through as starters.

First, money is NOT the
root of all evil. I believe the
whole quote which you
partially remember is, “The

PPC

Ontario's Downsville
Secondary School, under
Ken Morris. Certain aspects
of PPC seem to be somewhat
similar to the story of the
Love Project's beginnings in
New York's Jefferson High.
The little I know of PPC is
rather intriguing. Perhaps
you would like to read an
article in the current issue of
Homemaker’s, written by
Eileen Morris.

No letters
from cat lovers

QUESTION: [Id love to
know how many rabid letters
you received from cat-lovers
after your remarks recently.
I thought you were right on,
but Pll bet they tried to carl
your hair!

STEWART: | don't think I

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said anything to mie cat-
lovers. Anyway — nary a
letter has come — so far.
Perhaps cat-lovers are not as
fussy as you think. Or
perhaps 1t 1s hard to be a cat-

lover and write letters to the
paper both in the same lhife-
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of all evil.” Money is O.K.,
in fact it is’very nice stuff. In

itself it is quite harmless and |

very useful. Your attitude
toward it causes the
troubles. There’s one thing
to think through.

A second “stretcher” is
this: In a sense, money is not
YOURS. Try thinking of
money as not being your
POSSESSION, not being
something you OWN.
Money (and all “things”) are
for our use, but, if it belongs
to anyone, it belongs to the
whole family — the whole
human family. See it as
something you are entrusted
with to use well. It is not
your stuff, but it is available
to you to utilize or invest or
give away, in a manner that
will be pleasing to your
higher Self. In a sense, it
your privilege to act as a sort
of steward, or an agent of
your higher Self when you
use money.

Give those ideas your best
thinking. I have a hunch
they will save you from the
worry and anxiety that go
along with being niggardly
one day and the next day a
spendthrift. If you are
waiting for a windfall, be
grateful meanwhile for your
breezefall!

Where to retreat

QUESTION: Is there any

facility that you know of that
is available to North Shore
people who, like me, would
like, on occasion, to get
away from the fuss and hurry
and noise of every day life
and, for a day or two, just be
quiet and without any
responsibilities?

STEWART: Rent a _ hotel
room and go into” un-
disturbed retreat. Or, you
might phone Cenacle House
(it’s in the book) and enquire
of the good sisters what they
offer in the way of quiet,
undisturbed facilities. That
may be exactly what you are
seeking.

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