I'm seeing life increasingly through a lens of my contribution toward goodness, life, and grace and then my efforts that take away from these things. I'm only one life, just like any of us. And I want my life to be given toward positive contributions of the whole. That's the way of Jesus of Nazareth, whom I'm patterning my life after. So it seems to me that being a citizen of the whole is a choice that you can't assume. And it's the path I've chosen to follow.

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

$5,000 Story

Last week we served a client by renewing 30 year old kitchen cabinets. There was a significant transformation at the end of just one day. His wife said her cabinets looked like they were new! They were very pleased. He told me another company quoted him triple our price and it would take two weeks or more.

So, before we left he asked me to wait. He wanted to give me something. He brought out a jar of shreded $100 bills. It was $5K worth. He explained that he used to work for the U.S. Treasury. At his retirement he was allowed to take $1 million worth of shreded $100 bills that he had hand shreded. So now he shared the last of it with us. The man's gift symbolized his satisfaction with our company, N-Hance. My friend Ken, said that jar is reminder of the worth of time. What is more valuable, your time or your money?

I would rather invest my time in being and doing what I'm meant to do as God's child than anything else. How about you?

1 comment:

Mike said...

once a week...i'm very pleased