He said, “A friend of mine in my office—and I call him a friend, we have lunch almost every day together—he started telling me all of his problems concerning the lack of finances, how far behind the eight-ball he was. Well, I don’t always believe everything that I hear, so I appeared to be interested, but I really wasn’t. I was indifferent to all that he said. I listened as though I heard, but I didn’t hear. I heard it but it made no impression whatsoever, and I wondered to myself, how can he really believe the things that he’s telling me? But after a series of luncheons where he’s repeating this negative state of how much he owed and what he needed, I thought indifference is not really the thing, I must do something about it. So I simply began to listen and I heard him tell me that he had more than enough and enough to share. This was back in February or March of this year. Then he said, ‘In either May or June of this year, he tells me that he came into an inheritance. He didn’t tell me how much, but the first thing he did he bought himself a boat that sleeps four. Now the boat, this cabin cruiser sleeps four. Then he sent his oldest son off to college. Then he had extensive repairs and enlargements on his home. Then he bought himself a new wardrobe. Then he bought himself a new car. Now the last item” said he to me in the letter, “I know he had no intentions whatsoever of buying any new car. But these things I know that he did—he bought himself a cabin cruiser, he enlarged the home and had repairs on the home, a new wardrobe, sent his oldest son off to college, and then bought himself a new car. Now I know,” said he in his letter to me, “more and more who I am, the power that is resident in me. I heard it. I ignored it, but that’s not enough, to be indifferent. I must do something about it.”386 ¶6