the title of the chapter: you're not a christian if you love money
(i'm going by memory so if you have the book and see that i'm wrong, please don't "ugh that's wrong" me.)
long story short, later that day, i left my bag upstairs at church [stupid move] with my sweater covering it, next to everyone else's stuff. i came back up after our thanksgiving performance for the adults and discovered that my $100 bill was missing from my wallet. did i misplace it? no. did i use it without thinking? no i believe not. did i use it for offering by accident? pretty sure i didn't. i'm 98% sure someone took it. my sweater was positioned differently and my bag was more widely open than before.
i was in disbelief. but at the same time, i was pretty calm about it. surprisingly, i wasn't freaking out, i wasn't angry, i was just... calm. like any human being would, i took everything out from my wallet and searched through every receipt, business card, and old pictures. maybe like 5 times. and then i just... let it go.
whoever took it (pretty sure it was a middle or high schooler, because a few of them were hanging out around that area) better spend it well.
today, i found out that i didn't get chosen to be a finalist for the "hanging with friends" art contest. i was pretty bummed because i saw this as an opportunity to save money for grad school. still kinda bummed, but i mean... what should i expect when i only worked on it for 2 hours the night before it was due, while the finalists went all out and probably worked on it for days.
lesson learned:
"People who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs."
-1 Timothy 6:9-10
my money is really God's money. therefore, whatever i have, whatever i will have, i shall be thankful for.
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