i want your money!
Before getting into the main part of this post, two quick things:
- just got to Vancouver today for a week long vaca here with the family and family friends and will be going on a week long Alaskan cruise on Saturday. Had japanese food for supper and wow! The sushi and sashimi here is soooooooo much better than the stuff in T dot. Yum!
- overheard this from 2 girls sitting at a table next to mine last night at Pho Hung (a Vietemese restaurant): “I’ve never seen a Chinese restaurant so full before! Except for Mandarin!”
oh cultural ignorance…
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Anyways, onto the main part of this post: your money! That’s right, as the subject explicity implies, I want it! But not for myself! Cause that would be pretty selfish and greedy of me! I want it for the Canadian Cancer Society! I, along with 10 others, will be participating in the annual Relay for Life at Forest Hill Memorial Park on June 22nd. We’ll basically be staying up all night, taking turns walking around a track for 12 hours to support those who have cancer, remember those who have died from, and rais money for the Canadian Cancer Society.
So please support me and pledge some money! Any amount will do and you can even do it online here! So even if you live half way around the world, there’s no excuse for not pledging! 
I’ve set a goal of $1500 and I know that with your help, I can meet and exceed that! (in span of a week, 4 of us raised over $600 through cuts for cancer, so $1500 in a month should be nothing!)
And to sweeten the deal, here’s what I’ll do: if I receive at least $1500 in pledges, I’ll wax my legs at the relay for life. I’m also open to suggestions if you have some other crazy thing you’d like to see me do. Of course, if I agree to a suggestion, I may increase the minimum pledge total depending on the degree of crazyness of the suggestion.
You can also help me try to win $7,000 for the Canadian Cancer Society from 102.1 The Edge by joining my facebook group here!
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it all makes cents?
Sorry ’bout the lame title. I was trying to come up with a catchy title, but that was the best I could do.
Money. Cash. Moolah. Squid. It’s all around us. We need/want it. Can’t live without it. Some say it’s the root of all evil. Some say it’ll buy us anything, including happiness. Some say a million of it will buy your love (bonus points to those who know what I’m talking about). What’s the big deal?
Well, I’ve been thinking about it lately. I’ll be submitting my tax return soon (as soon as my lazy landlord gets around to issuing our receipts) and will be hopefully getting some back. But really, how much do we really need money? Sure, we need it to get us the basics: food, clothing, & shelter. But how about after that? Isn’t it just wants after that? I’ve always thought that I’ve been pretty good about money. Not wanting it, just using some of it for my needs, some for my wants, some for good causes. But do I really not want it? Maybe I have such a good attitude because I have it. What if I only had $1 a day to live on? Would I have the same attitude? Would I really be ok with just the money I have? I don’t know. I’d like to say yes, I would be ok with it, but really, would I? It’s like that episode of Boy Meets World where Topanga begins off saying image means nothing to her and to prove it, she cuts off a bunch of her hair. But a minute after that, she begins freaking and realizes she hasn’t cared about image because to society, she’s not ugly. Would I be like that if I lost all of my financial security?
One last thing about money: we have a ridiculous amount of it. If you’re reading this, chances are, you’re part of the upper class population of the world. A friend just sent me a link that lets you input you’re annual income and then it spits out where you rank in the world in terms of wealth. If you make a measly $1000 CAN a year, you’re richer than more than half the world. I put in how much I made last year at IBM, and I was ranked the 645,718,558th richest person in the world. That’s richer than 89.24% of the world. Kind of puts things in perspective.
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How ’bout you? How rich are you? What does that mean?
jehovah jireh
Just a quick background before I get into this post.
So, for U of T Chinese Christian Fellowship’s winter retreat this year, we’ve faced some challenges in the past couple of months, the biggest one being financial. There were very few places we could hold our retreat on the weekend we wanted (that being next weekend) and one of the places that we could do it was very expensive. So it basically came down to faith. Would we have faith that God would provide another place if we cancelled from this one (Fair Havens) or would we have faith God will provide the funds for Fair Havens? We (the committee) felt we should have faith that God would provide the funds. So, after some estimations and budgeting, it turns out that the retreat will cost about $110/person, way too expensive. So, in faith, we decided to only charge $85/person and that God would provide the rest of the money through other means. Now, the retreat is only a week away and we still needed to raise over $1000. Then tonight happened. Here’s the email I sent to the rest of the committee earlier tonight:
Oh man…words can not describe the joy I have right now. I haven’t been able to stop smiling and laughing for the past 10 minutes. All I can say, is hallelujah, praise the Lord, for He is good and He provides!
So, I come home from Kowloon tonight and I’m just unpacking everything from my bag, cleaning up and getting things organized. I take out the offering box and notice a sealed TD Canada Trust deposit envelope [on] top of the money. There’s a small yellow post it on the envelope with the simple words: “UTCCF: God told me to give this to you.“ So I’m like, ok, cool, some offering, probably a significant amount since it’s in an envelope, maybe even as much as $100. So I open it up. What do I see? A hundred dollar bill, whoa. So I take it out, but it’s not the only bill in there, actually this is a pretty thick wad of cash. So I start counting, “1, 2, 3…” and I don’t stop counting until I get up to 15 hundred dollar bills!!!! That’s right, $1500 sitting there!
So yeah, that’s why I haven’t been able to stop smiling or laughing, my heart is doing flips right now! What a mighty God we serve and see how he supplies
