MONEY

THE MORE YOU THINK about money, the less sense It makes.

I recently lost a significant amount of money in an investment that went south far too quickly. So I have been thinking about money…A LOT. Here’s some of what I concluded—the paper itself is worthless. There was a time when you could trade it in for gold or silver, but now, if you walked into a bank and asked for that, you’d get nothing but a blank stare.

If the government declared that leaves on trees were money so everyone could have enough, money would lose its value overnight. It only holds value because it’s limited, because the government says it does, and because, strangely enough, we trust that one thing—though we wouldn’t trust the government for much else.

Money’s value rises and falls in ways no one fully understands. Experts will tell you they can predict it, but the reality is, you can be rich one moment and broke the next, without ever lifting a finger or not pressing “sell” soon enough. Great fortunes can be made and lost without a single tangible thing changing. Honestly, the “low fuel” indicator light on my dashboard seems more real than the stock market.

Some people spend their entire lives chasing money, only to realize they’ve used up the life they were working so hard to enjoy.

When Jesus said it’s easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God, maybe he wasn’t saying wealth makes you evil. Maybe he meant that wealth can make you so disconnected from what’s real that you don’t even notice the things that truly matter—the things worth pursuing.

Dig deep…keep going.