https://anitamathias.com/2011/12/10/was-your-time-work-and-money-lost-or-wasted-or-was-it-a-seed/ Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Tue, 09 Apr 2019 10:25:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://anitamathias.com/2011/12/10/was-your-time-work-and-money-lost-or-wasted-or-was-it-a-seed/#comment-16960 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:05:34 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2011/12/10/was-your-time-work-and-money-lost-or-wasted-or-was-it-a-seed/#comment-16960 Ouch! I am sorry.
That was a mistake I could so easily have made. So it was a seeding event–teaching you to be wise as a serpent, as well as gentle as a dove.
God bless,
Anita

]]> https://anitamathias.com/2011/12/10/was-your-time-work-and-money-lost-or-wasted-or-was-it-a-seed/#comment-16959 Sun, 11 Dec 2011 03:57:24 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2011/12/10/was-your-time-work-and-money-lost-or-wasted-or-was-it-a-seed/#comment-16959 It's a good thought but beware of taking it to the next stage. I toyed with the idea that our sorrows were seed corn to be planted. A friend half across the world became homeless and before the money I sent arrived took her own life. The previous day she had gone to a church asking them to pray with her but had been turned away; I was furious.
The following Sunday there was a thin, homeless lad standing in the rain outside the church, he asked me to pray with him so of course I stayed behind after the service and invited him to dinner. He took more time than me to get to our house as he had a bike.
It took me a while to work out how the church collection had been nicked as we left together.
I had gone through the door before him and it was a Yale lock…..

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