VALUED AND PRECIOUS
Part II of "Why the Church? Because God So Loved the World" Matthew 13:45-46 Luke 15:8-10 Is a penny on the ground worth stopping to pick up? Well, it depends on the value we put on it. If we're going through lean times, every penny counts. If we collect coins, it may be worth our time to check it out. Some people will pick it up because they believe it's a heavenly reminder of whom we can put our faith in. It's all a matter of perspective and what we value. I t seems to me like a lot of fuss and bother for sixteen cents - sweeping out every corner, moving around furniture, sifting through flour and the ashes of the cooking fire; emptying out the water pots for one drachma. From the perspective of the woman who lost the coin, it was much more valuable. A silver drachma, at that time, represented the wages for ten days of labor and one tenth of her life savings. Beyond it's monetary value, that coin would also have special ...