THE ABSENCE OF EXPENSE

From a FB pal:

Here is a great talk given over 34 years ago that has good counsel on living during challenging economic times. The talk is given by Elder James E Faust, 1982–Ocotober conference. "The Blessings We Receive As We Meet the Challenges of Economic Stress". Elder Faust described "eight blessings that may come as we strive to overcome economic adversities." I would like to just share a couple statements given in one of those blessings listed.
"Reduce expense. When asked how some people in a small farming community in southern Utah got by on their meager cash income, George Lyman said, “They lived on the absence of expense.” On another occasion, someone observed: “Generations of great thinkers have dreamed of a moneyless society somewhere in the future. As far as some of us are concerned, we’re already ahead of our time.” (Sam Levenson, “You Don’t Have to Be in Who’s Who to Know What’s What,” Simon and Schuster, 1979, p. 184.) Economic wealth does not endow eternal blessings, and financial difficulty does not revoke eternal covenants.
Elder Neal A. Maxwell said: “An economic depression would be grim, but it would not change the reality of immortality. The inevitability of the second coming is not affected by the unpredictability of the stock market. … A case of cancer does not cancel the promises of the temple endowment. …
“All that matters is gloriously intact. The promises are in place. It is up to us to perform.” (“Notwithstanding My Weakness,” Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1981, p. 57.)
The whole talk is worth your time. Great advice is given for living in our troubled world.