TWO ATTITUDES OF THE FINANCIALLY FIT (3 OF 4)
by Scott Maze
Scripture: Proverbs 19:4, Proverbs 10:15, Proverbs 30:8-9
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Two Attitudes of the Financially Fit (3 of 4)
Series: Financial Fitness: Wisdom from Proverbs
Scott Maze
Selected Proverbs
Tania Luna is five years old and came to the United States eventually from Chernobyl in Russia. Four years earlier, Tania spends nine months in the hospital while black rain is coming down and her sister's hair falling out in clumps. All of this was a result of the most horrific nuclear disaster in history. After receiving asylum in the US, the five year old arrives in the United States where she expects to arrive in a place that is filled with wonderful things ''like bananas and chocolate and Bazooka.'' On her first day in New York City, she finds a penny on the floor in a hotel with lots of rats. Tania is holding this sticky, rusty penny in her hand and she feels like she is holding a fortune. And she loves this feeling for she feels like a millionaire. Years later, she and her sister get a knock on her door in their apartment of Brooklyn. In front of them is deliveryman with a box of pizza they didn't order. It's their very first box of pizza and devour a slice while the delivery man stands in the doorway asking for money. Only her family didn't have money for the pizza as her mother walked 50 blocks to and from work every day. It's then that the neighbor pops her head out the door and turns red with rage when she realizes that ''those immigrants from downstairs'' have somehow gotten their hands on her pizza Tania says, ''Everyone was upset. But the pizza is delicious.''
On their tenth anniversary of being in the U.S. the family decided to celebrate by reserving a room at the hotel they had first stayed in when they got to the U.S. The man at the front desk laughs, and says, ''You cannot reserve a room here. This is a homeless shelter.'' Tania was shocked as she thought about her experience many years before holding her penny.
Tania story stood out to me as I listened to her several months ago. Because she had so little, a lit ...
Series: Financial Fitness: Wisdom from Proverbs
Scott Maze
Selected Proverbs
Tania Luna is five years old and came to the United States eventually from Chernobyl in Russia. Four years earlier, Tania spends nine months in the hospital while black rain is coming down and her sister's hair falling out in clumps. All of this was a result of the most horrific nuclear disaster in history. After receiving asylum in the US, the five year old arrives in the United States where she expects to arrive in a place that is filled with wonderful things ''like bananas and chocolate and Bazooka.'' On her first day in New York City, she finds a penny on the floor in a hotel with lots of rats. Tania is holding this sticky, rusty penny in her hand and she feels like she is holding a fortune. And she loves this feeling for she feels like a millionaire. Years later, she and her sister get a knock on her door in their apartment of Brooklyn. In front of them is deliveryman with a box of pizza they didn't order. It's their very first box of pizza and devour a slice while the delivery man stands in the doorway asking for money. Only her family didn't have money for the pizza as her mother walked 50 blocks to and from work every day. It's then that the neighbor pops her head out the door and turns red with rage when she realizes that ''those immigrants from downstairs'' have somehow gotten their hands on her pizza Tania says, ''Everyone was upset. But the pizza is delicious.''
On their tenth anniversary of being in the U.S. the family decided to celebrate by reserving a room at the hotel they had first stayed in when they got to the U.S. The man at the front desk laughs, and says, ''You cannot reserve a room here. This is a homeless shelter.'' Tania was shocked as she thought about her experience many years before holding her penny.
Tania story stood out to me as I listened to her several months ago. Because she had so little, a lit ...
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