My dear Gregor, about the money left in the checking account advise to Grant. That is exactly why I was nervously confessing to you that I was holding money I knew should go, but it too was kind of sitting in my checking account.
Now, I was NOT SURE anyone was actually deserving of the money, you understand, and didn't want to just throw it out there to be done with it.
Finally went to a loca;l ministry which is just a building ministering to local kids, most of whom have real homes, but are also mostly punk rock nightmare kids literally going to hell in the little handbasket they all jump into so happily. EXACTLY like Pinnochio's Bad Boys Circus, with the circus cart and the fun it was on the way to the circus, and the circus so much fun, and Jimminy Cricket going nuts trying to get Pinno'c attention---
GOOD GRIEF! I just realized! This is a Christian Allegory-- duh...
So, I go to drop a check finally and end up in the best meeting since the late 70's when it all went south on most of us.
It also seems that much, much prayer was lifted by these kids, mostly, for Greg, the guy in his 30's who struggles to keep a home and 3 kids going while he also singlehandedly maintains this growing ministry for anyone, come who may. The prayers were for the "financial problems Greg had been having", and part of that is that he rents the building on faith for $1,200 per month, and the utilities, etc., are killers. What doesn't come in he makes up for, because he told the Lord he would.
So, there I was with his tithe in my checking account, leading to the pressure in his life that caused him on the job to be just sloppy enough to hit a nail just so that it shot right into his eye requiring emergency surgery. That the day before I showed up after months of absence because I'm too lazy to participate and contribute my time. I prefer heading home to my fun stuff. All things will of course work for good, but I was very enlightened by what I saw in the Spirit of this
small Christian drama.
Just a comment to shed light on anything we're trying to see here.
Ken, I sure hope that if you're reading this you understand it. I type very fast and hate to edit. |
