Take The Calculated Risk

Scripture  Plant your seed in the morning and keep busy all afternoon, for you don’t know if profit will come from one activity or another—or maybe both.  ~Ecclesiastes 11:6, NLT Quote Doing nothing is not nothing; it is something that produces nothing. ~Annymous Man by nature is a control freak and some are more persistent…

Wisdom And Wealth

Scripture Wisdom and money can get you almost anything, but only wisdom can save your life.  ~Ecclesiastes 7:12, NLT Quote Wealth is the slave of the wise and the master of the fool. ~Seneca I am no great fan of Solomon; he brought child-sacrificing pagan worship to Jerusalem which marked the beginning of the end…

Contentment Is A Gift

Scripture  Enjoy what you have rather than desiring what you don’t have. Just dreaming about nice things is meaningless—like chasing the wind. ~Ecclesiastes 6:8 Quote “I’ve never met a rich man who was happy, but I have only very occasionally met a poor man who did not want to become a rich man. ~Malcolm Muggeridge…

Making Friends or A Fortune

Scripture Here is someone who lives alone. He has no son, no brother, yet he is always working, never satisfied with the wealth he has. For whom is he working so hard and denying himself any pleasure? This is useless, too – and a miserable way to live. ~Ecclesiastes 4:8, GNT Quote In a world…

A Sense of Accomplishment

Scripture The greater my wisdom, the greater my grief. To increase knowledge only increases sorrow. ~Ecclesiastes 1:18 NLT Quote Ignorance can be bliss! ~Ya’akov Thomas Gray, in one of his poem stated, “Ignorance is bliss and wisdom is folly.” I altered it somewhat, ignorance is not always bliss and wisdom is not always folly but…

Pride And Wealth

Scripture Rich men are conceited, but their real poverty is evident to the poor. ~Proverbs 28:11, LNT Quote Money has never made a man happy and never will. Instead of filling a vacuum, it creates a larger one. ~Ben Franklin Let me say two things right off of the bat, Ben Franklin was one smart…

Scripture Let him who stole steal no longer, but rather let him labor, working with his hands what is good, that he may have something to give him who has need. ~Ephesians 4:28, NKJV Quote We make a living by what we earn but we make a life by what we give. ~Sir Winston Churchill  As we…