No money…

I have this plant in my garden and somebody says that it is the money tree. I don’t know if it is or not – perhaps, it is the feng shui money tree but whatever it is, a windfall does not seem to be forthcoming, not at all.

It sprouts out of the soil as a bud…

as the folded leaves push their way out…

and gradually unfold…

and grow bigger…

…and bigger…

But as time goes by, they get old and turn yellow…

and then brown and drop off the stalk which will wither and shrink away leaving behind an old wrinkled stump.

In a way, it serves to remind me about life, for by the sweat of your face, you shall eat bread till you return to the ground for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return, (Genesis 3:19) and indeed, if it is money that one wants, one would have to work (hard) for it and I must say that I am blessed considering that I am now retired and enjoying a well-earned rest after all my years of working, getting by pretty well on my monthly pension.

I am thankful that I have a comfortable life and it does not really matter one bit that I am not rich and basking in the lap of luxury. After all…

for “…to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me,” (Matthew 25:40) and this, I do believe.

Have a Holy Sunday, everybody…and may God bless us all.