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March starts with more snow and more cold. We are a society of ‘more’ but more snow and cold get a little tiring. More money seems to be one thing most in the USA do not tire of. In fact, the more money most people have the more money they want. It seems to be the same way with more military spending. The more we spend on the military, more than the next ten largest countries in world together, the more we need to spend. Now when the Department of Defense is talking about reducing expenses they seek and want more military spending.

Now more has more than one meaning of greater number of something. It can also mean the repeat of something. When my now sixteen grandsons was one and half year old Pat and I with his parents took a long road trip. I spend some time him in the backseat with him telling him funny stores or playing silly games with him. At the time he had a small vocabulary of about five words. One of his words was ‘more.’ After a story or silly game he would say ‘more’. At first I thought he meant another store or silly game but I soon learned he wanted to repeat the thing over again. More meant more of the same.

The Society of Jesus, Jesuits, a religious order, have a saying “For the greater glory of God.” The Latin word for greater glory is ‘magis’ and the thought is often shortened to the word ‘magis’ or we would say ‘more.’ I used to think when I was young that it means doing more and more for the greater glory of God. But as I grew older I learned that St. Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Society of Jesus, did not necessary mean more in terms of greater number of things but more in the sense of repeating the same thing and getting deeper and deeper into the same experience.

This explanation explains how ‘poor’ in some countries like Guatemala, can be more satisfied and at peace than ‘poor’ in the USA. The poor in these countries do not expect more in terms of great number of things but are pleased with a repeat of a good experience, like having adequate food to eat. While in the USA the poor are constantly bombarded with a culture that says to them the more, the greater number of things, you have the better person you are. Thus poor not expecting much more things can be more satisfied than the poor who are constantly told they need more things. When the Mayan people of Guatemala talked of their desires it is for freedom, to keep the major mining companies from ruining their land, not the acquisition of more things.

This principle of more vs. more not only applies to the poor but to all of us up. In the East they say that the “root of all suffering is desire.” I had a friend tell me the other day how hard he was striving to find a woman who would be a lifetime companion. He is trying so hard to find the right woman that he often makes himself miserable. I tried to tell him about another friend who was trying very hard to find the right woman but eventually gave up and felt freer and more satisfied with his life. However, it was at that moment of life he did find the right person.

To be in solidarity with poor, the blessed ones of God, is to be like the blind beggar or a person that is satisfied with being poor. There is a detachment that brings happiness when more does not make more things but a deeper appreciation of what we have. Give me more not more.

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