Sacrifice

Who knows of sacrifice? Only the truly good will ever experience it. Only the truly enlightened will know its power. Only the blessed will be able to bare the weight of it. There are so, so many fools walking the face of the earth who will never have knowledge of it and with their blissful ignorance they shall condemn themselves to nothingness. "I" "Me" "My" and that is mainly what it is in this land of the free. Sacrifice has nothing to do with an individual thinking of one's self. Sacrifice can not be attained by having nice things or a good social standing in the community. There is nothing superficial about sacrifice. There is nothing selfish about sacrifice. There is no money to be made by it. There is no fame to be attained with it. There is no physical beauty caused by it. Sacrifice is the knowledge and belief that good will come by means of loss if we are strong enough and faithful enough to endure that loss. Imagine if all the rich people who cover all the corners of this land decided in one moment to share what they have with those who have absolutely nothing. It is a terrible thing to have so very much and to keep that quantity bottled up in an attempt at high status. Sacrifice is something that very few will ever know, and because of this, very few will ever possess true knowledge of good. And so it comes to pass that "many will be called, but few will be chosen."(Christ) My Lord tried to tell us that the only way to overcome suffering was to suffer it, and that the only way to know sacrifice was to sacrifice it. Why can't anyone seem to understand these simple principles or is it that we just don't want to know because it would require sacrifice on our part?