Congrats again, bro! You wrote, “You’ve arrived at a higher spiritual plane when you have no anxiety when hanging with those who have more than you and when serving the the poorest of the poor. You’re detached from the attraction of riches and repulsion/fear of poverty.”

My question/comment is more to the response of freeing oneself from the anxiety. I cannot describe how truly liberated I feel to have sold my car and rid myself the responsibility of so much “stuff.” The fact is, and I think you’re touching on this, is that with all of my former possessions, I was the one possessed by them. So, I now find myself bouncing to a repulsion/fear of riches. The city can do that to a person. How does a Christian soberly deal with moving from anxiety to a detachment of the attraction without a complete overhaul? For me, there would’ve been far too many compromises that would keep me luke-warm if I hadn’t dived right in. Is it possible for someone to make gradual change in giving over control of possessions to God? Is a gradual change Biblical?

Miss you, bro.

Mike