"My Sons, My Wealth" — Source of Worry

📝Reflection

This verse can sound cold — that neither sons nor wealth are yours. But its point is to name "the illusion of ownership." We call many things "mine" and bind our hearts there: my child, my house, my achievement — as if they would be with us forever. So each time they waver, we fret and suffer. Yet this verse asks something deeper: when even your body and your time are borrowed in the end, what can you own forever? This is not a call to discard everything. It is to open the gripping hand. Regard them as gifts entrusted to enjoy for a while, and the same children and wealth become not anxiety but gratitude. When we believe we possess, we are anxious; when we know we are entrusted, we are at last at peace.