KEVIN
Before sitting down to write this article, I would have said that I have never had a problem with jealousy. However, as I have pondered this topic over the last week, I had to ask myself whether or not it was really true that I have never been a jealous person. After all, we live in a hyper competitive and comparative culture. How can one avoid not being jealous or covetous of others from time to time? I guess I was blessed to grow up in humble beginnings, coming from a large family and living in a small town in farm country. Our family was neither well-to-do nor poor. As far as I can remember, we were just like the rest of the families in town. We didn’t have a lot, but we had enough. Even though there were nine of us kids, our parents left us with the impression that there was always enough love to go around. I was also fortunate to grow up in Catholic schools staffed by priests and nuns who taught us not to look at those who had more but to look for ways to reach out to those who had less. By the time I was old enough to recognize that there were others who had a lot more than we did, I had already come to realize it didn’t really make any difference in the grand scheme of things.
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Crystal and Kevin Sullivan
