Thank you to all who attended the "Affluenza" event this past Sunday.  Talking about money in church is often fraught with tension; I'm not sure why.  If we believe that everything we have belongs to God and is just "on loan" to us then why should it be so hard to talk about what we do with it? 

 

Sometimes I think we get too caught up in thinking that stuff is "ours,"  that we've "worked for it" and "deserve it" and that it will ultimately make a difference in who and what we are.  Don't know what that says about people who haven't had the breaks, the health, the stamina, the whatevers that we have had, but think maybe the focus is overly "on us" when we think too long and hard about how and why we have what we have.

 

Bottom line is like in that poem I've read somewhere the jist of which is that a hundred years from now it won't matter what kind of car we drove or what kind of house we lived in or what our salary was or how large our bank account was, what will matter is the difference we've made in someone else's life.  Certainly, all those things can be of great value when we are sharing and caring for other people and it is a blessing to share abundantly because we have received abundantly.

 

 

Peace, 

 

Pastor Carol