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            We are presently living in a time of reduction, a time when there is not as much money to go around as once there was.  It therefore behooves all of us to ask questions such as “Have you ever been unhappy because what you wanted was not what you had?”

          What are your priorities?  When you pick up the newspaper do you turn to the adds first?  The buy or cry problem.  Your last rummage sale? 

Were you participating in getting rid of items that not long ago you felt you simply had to have or you would just die?  Now bought by someone else who feels that they absolutely must possess what you no longer want.

          C. K. Chesterton said there are two ways to have enough; one is to get more, the other is to desire less. 

 

          A minister was on vacation and enjoying his needed rest.  One afternoon as he was relaxing on the porch and looking out over a mountain scene he received a phone call from a local congregation. 

They had gotten word that there was a vacationing minister in their little community and they wondered if he would be willing to preach the next Sunday.  He readily agreed and the next Sunday showed up along with 12 people who had come to hear him preach.  

When it was all over, one of the Deacons came up to him, thanked him and then said,

“We wish we could pay you something but we don’t have any money.  I hope you understand.”

           “It’s alright,” responded the minister.  “No problem at all.”

           But as he was leaving the church he noticed an offering plate…and the plate was completely empty.  Reaching down into his pocked he came out with a crisp new twenty-dollar bill and dropped it therein. 

 

As he and his wife and daughter were walking hand-in-hand to their car, the Deacon who had spoken to them came rushing up with an envelope. “Wait” he exclaimed, “We couldn’t let you leave without giving you something.”

           When they were back home, he opened the envelope and yes – as you‘ve probably already figured out – in it was the easily recognized brand new $20 bill he had dropped into the offering plate.

 Turning to his daughter he asked, “Did you learn a good lesson from this morning?  “Sure did, Daddy,” she laughingly responded.  “If you had put more in, you would have gotten more back.”

 

          Affluencza is a sickness we all can suffer from.  Having too much is not good.  Having too little is not good.  If we use our brains and bolster our thinking power with a prayer we can all find the middle ground and be the happier for it.

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