Where Your Heart Is; There Your Treasure Shall Be Also

Where your heart is there your treasure will also be says the Gospel of Matthew 6:21, and looking at the volatility of the markets, it's no wonder our levels of confidence, faith and hope are dropping along with with our 401ks, the GDP and the blue chips. We've invested not just our money but also the worth of ourselves into a system built on risk and expectation that masqueraded as a sure foundation taking the labels of consumers, which by definition makes us people who "spend wastefully, eat and drink especially in great quantity, and do away with things completely" says Merriam Webster. And then we wonder why things aren't as we thought they were.

On April 4, nearly 200 students from 30 different groups from NYU, Rutgers, Baruch and Columbia poured again into the streets and subways to testify that our hearts should invest the love that we've received from God through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ because the supply is limitless and the return gives eternal dividends.

As I gave a bagged lunch to John Peter at 42nd Street and helped him off the train and onto the bench. He thanked me and said "love visited me today" and began to cry. We talked until I could get him to laugh. I found out that he was part Shoshone and liked songs from the '70s. They were happier times he said. I asked why he didn't open the bag to eat right away and he replied that he was getting back on the train to take half the sandwich to his wife who was sleeping at another stop.

We are all people pebbles tossed into a pool, every ripple I create in turn will ripple you, so in unison we are rippling a type of ripple rhythm but we need to ripple in a way that benefits our living. God only knows how far those 1200 lunches went or who they made it to, I'm just thankful we got to take them.