Always seeking the true peace that only comes from God's wealth.
✍️ Author: Cira Arroyo Fuentes
📅 Saturday, July, 2026 – 05:15 PM
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📌 Introduction
I have discovered that in today's world, people go out of their way to build material castles, accumulate jewelry, fill their homes with luxury, work only for appearances, and wear beautiful clothes.
On the contrary, I chose to create an eternal castle in each writing, driven by the true wealth of God in my life. Material riches, accumulation, and excessive physical food suffocate, sicken, and cause a person to completely lose their inner peace.
That is why I decided to protect my soul by creating spiritual rather than material castles, maintaining this expense-free blog where I share food for the spirit.
📜 Message
I have learned along my path that everything we physically possess demands constant maintenance, generates harmful attachments, and chains us to worry. For this reason, I prefer to take care of the castle of my blog, adding those little castles and writings day by day as a refuge of light.
The word of the Lord clearly warns us about this danger in Lucas 12:15 when He tells us to take heed and beware of covetousness, for one's life does not consist in the abundance of the things he possesses. What is material wears out and stays on earth, but ideas, faith, and God's wisdom give us a life that remains forever.
I have deeply understood that my spiritual castles manage to completely unburden a person, freeing the soul and healing the spirit from earthly weights. Dedicating myself to expressing my ideas immediately relieves my mind, ordering my thoughts before God and making me truly free through each written word.
On the contrary, for people who only care about accumulating excessive wealth, each new object they buy becomes a heavy bond. Each new room they raise on their property, each extra house they acquire, or each new business they open, instead of giving them freedom, steals a piece of peace because all existing matter requires expensive maintenance.
A writing is born deep within me during my intimate communion with God, goes straight into the air through the screen, and needs absolutely nothing more than to be written there forever. Once the spiritual castle is created and published, it remains available for any thirsty reader to come and nourish themselves, leaving me totally free to keep creating as many castles and writings as I want without spending anything.
Material castles demand time, money, and sleepless nights, devouring the tranquility of their owners, while my spiritual castles never require external maintenance. Another great discovery that I apply daily is the blessing of living life at my own pace and, if possible, doing everything on foot because walking kills several birds with one stone.
By walking, I get physical exercise, breathe the fresh air of the day, and go out to the street several times for a stroll because the lack of carrying space prevents me from bringing everything at once. This physical limitation becomes my greatest abundance because it forces me to leave the house, clear my mind, and connect with nature at a natural rhythm.
When people have a car, they start doing absolutely everything at the speed of the vehicle and fall into the trap that the more they have, the more they want. That constant acceleration makes the car insufficient later on, and they need an airplane to move from one place to another, running desperately like famous singers.
That excessive haste is not life, which is why I apply this same wisdom of sustainability and simplicity to finances, understanding that one should never buy a house based on two, three, or four family salaries. The true financial secret is to acquire a simple home that can be sustained with a single salary, just in case the other contributions fail in the future.
If you create an immense palace and others can no longer help you maintain it, you will be trapped in a giant structure that will steal your tranquility until the end of your days. That is why I keep my channel and my writings exactly at the speed I can manage and in a way that is totally free of heavy economic expenses.
I am not interested in impacting the world with the decorative luxuries of an expensive platform, but I wish to impact exclusively with the quality and substance of the content. Today, I see many creators and influencers doing a single thing with bells and whistles, spending a fortune so that their commercial message is spread through the world as if it were the wonder of the year.
At the end of the week, you realize that it was the only thing they did, leaving exposed that their projects are pure empty smoke, without real content and without spiritual quality. This same lack of sustenance and blindness is what I observe in farm owners today who can no longer keep reproducing their lands and have water up to their necks.
Since they are desperate and do not know what to do with their properties, they go around scanning and looking into the lives of others to see whom they can catch to work for them almost for free for a plate of food. They look for people in extreme economic need to keep them working from sunup to sundown cultivating for them, and they even hurt over the miserable food they give them.
These people have farms larger than their own hands can span and end up resorting to human abuse so they do not have to let go of their palaces of land. The most incredible part of all is that if one approaches them and kindly tells them to sell the farm if they can no longer maintain it, they take it as the worst possible offense.
Their pride is so great that they prefer to become hunters of people, walking with the leash in hand like a cattleman in the field, looking to see what human being they can fish to bring into their fold and manipulate. They want to maintain their status and material pride at the expense of others' sweat, ignoring the warning in Santiago 5:4 where we are told that the cries of the laborers whose wages were kept back by fraud have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.
My simple lifestyle and my trust in God are my shield because by not having disproportionate material ambitions, I become completely invisible and impossible to catch for the nets of these hunters. To all this panorama, a great truth is added that I have learned to observe in daily life, reshaping that old popular saying.
Instead of simply saying that we see faces but do not know hearts, today we can state with total certainty that we see faces but do not know fortunes. There are many people who make the wise decision not to acquire any material goods or get involved in property tangles.
They are people who firmly say that they are only going to have a humble corner to sleep in, keeping their money safe in the bank and nothing else. Although it is true that properties rise in value over time, if they are abandoned there without anyone taking advantage of them, they leave nothing but worries and heavy work.
That is why we see so many farm owners walking around desperate to see who will cut the grass or watch the land, living as slaves to their material possessions. In contrast, whoever decides to manage themselves solely with their saved money does not have those headaches because they do not have to watch farms, deal with animals, or call doctors to heal sick cattle.
That is why I repeat that we see faces but do not know fortunes, because one can see a person humbly sitting in any corner, living even in a small house with a dirt floor, and it turns out that person is a millionaire or billionaire in the bank with plenty of money to spare. At the same time, owners are seen full of immense farms but with completely empty pockets and without a single liquid cent, proving that appearances are deceiving and that true financial tranquility consists in not carrying chains of land.
There is something very important that happens when one decides to live for the interior and stops being foolish toward the exterior: sometimes even your own family and environment set you aside and do not take you into account. This happens because they realize that they can no longer manipulate you as they want.
Since there are always those in small towns who think they are the masters of everything, whether influential families or powerful characters, it deeply bothers them that one has a free behavior of life. In this town, to anyone who does not agree with them or does not allow themselves to be manipulated, they look for a way to give them a drug or an injection to send them straight to the asylum, seeking a way to get rid of them so they do not get in the way.
That is the low strategy of those who think they are great: they want to send whoever stands firm to receive electrical shocks under the excuse that they lost their sanity. They pretend to use medicine and confinement to bend minds they cannot control with their money, but what they do with those methods is leave people worse off and destroy their peace.
They have hinted it to me many times throughout my life to try to instill fear and make me doubt, but thanks to God they were never able to carry it out nor have they been able to defeat me. I choose my life for the highest bidder, and my highest bidder is the Lord; I choose to live in a way that pleases Him, because you can never please the world. By choosing to please the Creator, I have gained an unbreakable strength and a peace that no human threat can ever shatter.
🕊️ Bible Verse
"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?" — Mark 8:36-37
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💭 Author's Note
This writing comes from observing how material ambition, small-town pride, and self-interest transform human relationships to the point of seeking absolute control.
"Every day I am more convinced that I have nothing to do out there in the outside world and I prefer to live in my inner world with God, which is why I invite you to evaluate at what speed you are living and whether you are building on the rock of self-sufficiency or on the sand of material appearances."
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📚 Bibliography
- The Holy Bible, Reina-Valera 1960 Version (Luke 12, Mark 8, James 5).
- My personal experiences, direct observations, and learnings from my daily life.
