AUSTRALIA MYTHOLOGY
Money is the currency of the human economic system.
But what is the currency of the Creator?
Perhaps it is something contained in one great word:
Love.
Love is often described as an emotion that appears mysteriously and may disappear just as mysteriously.
People say:
“I no longer feel love.”
“I am bored.”
“I need something more.”
“We have grown apart.”
But perhaps love does not simply arrive and leave without a cause.
Perhaps love requires three fundamental conditions:
Truth, trust and free will.
Without truth, two people cannot meet each other as they really are. They can meet only through incomplete information, hidden intentions or constructed images.
Without trust, the relationship becomes a place of uncertainty. Words are no longer enough because trust is not created by declarations. It is created by a consistent pattern of actions.
Without free will, love becomes possession, obligation or control. A person may remain physically present while something essential within the relationship has already disappeared.
When one of these foundations is damaged, people often notice only the final consequence:
Distance.
Loneliness.
Suspicion.
The collapse of relationships.
Children growing up without stability.
A society in which people work, pay taxes and struggle to survive, yet increasingly feel that something human is missing.
We call these results a disaster.
But the visible disaster is only the final effect.
To understand it, we must return to the cause.
Was truth protected?
Was trust built through action?
Was free will respected?
If love is the currency of the Creator, these three values may be the conditions that allow it to circulate between human beings.
This gives the First Commandment another possible meaning:
“You shall have no other gods before Me.”
This does not need to be understood only as a religious instruction.
It can also become a question about attention.
How much of our attention is devoted to money, position, fear and survival?
How much is devoted to truth, trust, free will and love?
Every honest conversation with the Creator may be a form of prayer.
It does not require special words.
It may begin with a simple question:
“What am I serving through the way I live?”
We may say that we honour the Creator. But the true answer may be visible in what receives most of our attention, what directs our decisions and what we are willing to sacrifice other people for.
Money can be a useful tool.
Survival is necessary.
But when either becomes the highest authority directing our lives, it may quietly occupy the place of God.
The First Commandment therefore asks each person to examine their own direction:
What is the highest value in my life?
What do my actions worship?
Who—or what—is truly my god?
Do not accept another person’s answer.
Ask yourself.
