Weirdness Part 2

You may remember I have been reading the book Weird by Craig Groeschel and I did a blog on being weird with your time a few weeks back. The next topic for Pastor Groeschel in his book is weirdness with our money. Now here's a topic the Pruett family can get behind. We have always seemed to have a different approach to how we spend our money. Imagine my delight to find out we can embrace our bizarre attitude! Let me give you some examples...

After leaving a store one time, we discovered they did not charge us for a certain item. We went back in to the store to pay for it. The employees gave us a definite once over as we tried to explain that we were bringing the item back in to pay for it, not to get our money back. Weird.

One of our boys found $20 on a shelf in Best Buy and we made him take it to the front and turn it in. Weird.

My husband found $80 in cash by the door at an outlet store in Branson. He turned it in and got a call 3 months later that no one had claimed it and it was his if he wanted to come get it. Weird.

But it's not just money that is the object of our weirdness. Our attitude toward our possessions has also been labeled as abnormal. We have a flatbed trailer that spends more time on loan than in our driveway. It's not shiny and new anymore but it sure has helped a lot of people.

I remember one time we let a co-worker take our almost new video camera to a family reunion (along with our van to get her whole family there). She was able to video the event, including some footage of her brother-in-law doing some silly impressions. A few weeks after they got back, he was diagnosed with cancer and passed away very soon after. The images taken that weekend became ever so precious to her family.

There are many areas in our lives we need to work more diligently to improve but I really think my family has this one nailed. We have loaned out our tools, our power washer, our compressor, our tiller, our car and even our house. Long ago we determined that what God has been gracious enough to give us, we would share.

"When God gives any man wealth and possessions, and enables him to enjoy them, to accept his lot and be happy in his work--this is a gift of God." Eccl. 5:19


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