I have never gone hunting for gold, but I have heard there is gold in South Carolina! I met a lady that showed me some gold dust they panned from a stream in the upstate! The gold fever never struck!  I enjoyed looking at her ore sample and enjoyed visiting with her Rex rabbits. I actually got my first  Rex rabbit from that lady!  My family has enjoyed Rex rabbits along with many other breeds over the years here on our homestead. Durbin Creek flows along our land boundary and we enjoy living here as if we were sitting on a gold mine!  The joys of life that God gives are so abundant and so satisfying that  the peace and contentment deep in my soul is the bedrock we build upon rather than the elusive dream for riches!
     This humorous story I received says a lot!

As a young boy enters a barber shop, the barber whispers to his customer, "This kid is a few fries short of a happy meal... watch while I prove it to you." The barber puts a dollar bill in one hand and three quarters in the other and then calls the boy over and asks, "Which do you want, son?" The boy takes the quarters and leaves. "What did I tell you?" said the barber, shaking his head in disbelief. "That kid never learns! Every day he stops by and I offer him a dollar bill and he takes the quarters instead."

Later that day the customer sees the same young boy coming out of an ice cream shop. "May I ask you a question? Why did you take the quarters instead of the dollar bill?" The boy licked his cone and smiled, "Because the day I take the dollar, the game is over."

What a contrast in the understanding of these characters! Who is ever learning? Who is never learning? Where does the real wealth lie?
 “It is better to possess the gold of  joy and contentment  with what things we have rather than griping and complaining over things we cannot afford!”     Loretta Hayward