What are you willing to pay?
Starbucks is my vise.
Really my vise would be any great coffee if Northern Nevada had good coffee, but alas, Starbucks meets my caffeinated junkie fix.
What it doesn’t serve is my wallet.
$11.45 for two coffees. Sure mine had chocolate and my wife’s with extra cream… but seriously? For coffee?
Everything costs somebody something.
My $11.45 had to pay for workers growing the coffee, the transportation of the beans, roasting, packaging and that’s before it even hits the retail shelf. There were hundreds (if not thousands) of people working and paying a cost for me to drink my warm mocha on my way to work on a brisk fall morning.
Everything costs somebody something.
There’s a common remark about the no-cost grace that God provides… it still cost one man his life.
The church buildings we gather together in to shake Heaven with praise… it cost somebody (most likely some people) some coin.
The gentlemen on your left in church who seems to always have faith that moves mountains… it cost his parents many nights of prayers and his own time and dedication to know the God that moves the mountains for him.
Everything costs somebody something.
I’m feeling very grateful today… my wife, my boys and everyone and everything God has brought into my life is good. I’m honoring God tonight as I know somebody somewhere has paid the price so that I may enjoy this life I live.
And I’m asking myself… How can I pay it forward?
What are you grateful for today?
*Photo Credit: Images_of_Money, Flickr (Creative Commons)
