Money and God
I just visited an old friend of mine last weekend and we talked quite a bit about money and God. It was eye-opening for me to talk to someone who had a completely different mindset on money than I did. He has been on the opposite extreme of the American way of living extravagantly off of credit cards.
He hasn’t had a penny of debt, was very wise with his money, but had a distorted view of how much it takes to survive. He grew up in a wealthy household. And many people, including myself, would assume that concerns about money would not have existed, but we would be wrong.
They lived debt-free and had a ton in the bank, but as he told me concerns about running out of money were a very real issue. This was difficult for me to imagine having grown up with a lot less. […]
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