Re: Burgess: waste not want not

Dona, aka "trionl", explained

Marius Hancu had asked

Does
"waste not want not"
mean
"don't waste it, even if you don't want it?"

No, it means that if you are not wasteful, you will never "want" for
anything (the old word meaning to lack, to be in need.)
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One of my earliest memories from school was caused by this word.

I came from a non-religious family, and had no instruction whatsoever about
God until I started school aged five. There, I learnt about God and Jesus,
how they were all-powerful, and how they would undoubtedly help me through
life, at every crossroads.

This instruction all went fine until, in morning assembly some six months
after I had started school, we had to sing Psalm 23, "The Lord is my
shepherd, I shall not want". It seemed to me that my teachers were telling
me on the one hand how useful God would be to me in my life, and on the
other that I did not want Him. This conundrum remained a complete mystery
for the next ten years or so, by which time I was lost to Christianity for
other reasons.

Richard Chambers Leeds UK.


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