Lend Your Stuff
Theme of the Week: Loosen Your Gear Grip
Sunday, December 17, 2006
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Who Said It…Tim Stafford
Tim Stafford started his writing career with what is now Ignite Your Faith magazine (then Youth for Christ's Campus Life). Next he moved his family to Kenya and founded Step magazine, for Christian youth in Africa. With Philip Yancey, he co-authored notes for the popular Student Bible. Now Tim's family, including wife Popie, a counselor, and three children, live in Santa Rosa, California. Tim is a senior writer for Christianity Today and has written many books, including a historical fiction trilogy. What He Said…Lend Your Stuff
For some people no act of generosity comes harder than lending because they're emotionally attached to their possessions and can't let go. Something seizes up inside at the thought of letting your new car go on the church ski trip or lending your power tools to the group going to Mexico to build houses. The car may get dented. The tools may get lost or broken. However, such tangible acts of generosity make sense to children in a way that the abstract writing of checks might not.
We made it a family policy, when we bought a new minivan, to make it available to the church or school anytime they needed it. And they needed it frequently! We sent a full minivan to Mexico, into the Sierra for ski trips, and to a great variety of other destinations. I almost always found it a little hard to let the car out of my hands. However, I am quite sure my children will remember these small acts of generosity and want to imitate them.
Adapted from Never Mind the Joneses (InterVarsity, 2004) by permission.
Copyright © 2006 by the author or Christianity Today International/Men of Integrity magazine. Click here for reprint information on Men of Integrity. 1 of 1
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Help me, Lord, to break the small child's compulsion to say, 'Mine! Mine!' and loosen my grasp on things.
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