Mind Your Own Business

Mind Your Own Business

“Mind Your Own Business” is something my mom used to say to me a lot when I was a kid.

I think it’s a concept we need to revive, especially when it comes to how people manage their finances.

I see people bashing the rich for $50 million-dollar weddings and numerous mansions.

Is it too much? You and I probably think so, but is it any of our business?

I see people with that kind of money, and it makes me want to say something.

Kathy and I were on a bike ride and saw multimillion-dollar mansions in the rural mountains of Montana.

We said to each other, “People have too much money.”

Wait a minute, that’s none of my business.

It’s true, some do, but again, when we start down that road of comparison and think we deserve the right to say how someone spends their money, we are on a slippery slope.

In comparison to many places in the world, most Americans are wealthy by world standards.

There’s a move in this country by some to be the self-proclaimed wealth bashers.

What’s unfair about these folks is that their leaders are rich politicians.

The rich claiming we need to tax the rich more, when they are the rich… such hypocrisy.

We do need to find ways to make buying a home more affordable.

The same politicians crying for “affordable housing” vote to shut down forests and limit logging.

Last time I checked, lumber was still the most sustainable building material.

Check out how this is impacting rural places in Oregon in our Truth About Timber series.

New episode uploads on Tuesday, July 8th.

Here’s the first episode.

https://youtu.be/tuF0_fj4AaI?si=cuZaW6I649SgbhNk

The Bible tells us there will always be wealthy people and there will always be poor.

It’s up to God to judge how we spend our money and how we take care of each other.

Rather than look at how the wealthy are giving, perhaps we should focus on what we are doing.

I’ve worked with many non-profits over the years, and without the wealthy giving, those agencies and the work they do would disappear.

I’m not here to stand up for the rich, not my point at all.

But we are warned that when we take a splinter out of the eyes of others, we often can’t see the plank blocking our vision.

Jealousy is so ugly and so easy to fall victim to.

Social media makes it so much easier to bash those we don’t know.

If we took as much time taking care of the life they’ve been given as we do judging how others live, we’d be a heck of a lot happier.