Author: Jennifred Jones

Particles of Gold

Jennifred Jones

Gold is valuable, but it takes considerable effort to find it, refine it, and combine it into a pin or ring.

That’s us! We all have many, many particles of gold within, but it takes effort….considerable effort to find it, refine it and make it into something. It will be a lifelong process, mining it out, and often we’ll need other gold-diggers (friends etc) to help us find the veins in us and dig them out!

Each of us has intrinsic value and worth that this world, our family, our workplaces, other people need for us to bring to the surface and offer in exchange to meet not only their needs but ours.

I give you a piece of my gold, shaped like a pillow I made that you want, in exchange for a piece of your gold, shaped like a bookshelf I want that you made.

I am a pie baker, that’s my gold, which you need for your dinner, so you give me some of your gold in exchange.

You have a golden idea to help my business, so I give you some of my gold for your idea.

I raise cattle, that’s my gold, to sell to your restaurant for your customers in exchange for their gold while they enjoy your meal.

I can’t sew my pillow without the sewing machine you designed and made because you knew someone would need one to make the pillow you might want!

It’s a circle of provision…finding, combining, delivering, meeting needs improving upon, developing another idea, a better product, adding more of your gold combined with some of mine….

Let’s gold mine together and capture every particle and bring them out and build together a better world!

The Money-Tool

Jennifred Jones

For some of us, (me included) we need to rethink one of the tools in our toolbox…..MONEY!

Dad was a cabinet maker with all sorts of tools in various sizes, shapes, types, and each one produced a result by the work of his hands.

He used his tools to make many, many enduring pieces which our family still has and uses today.

Back to money. It is a tool in our hands to be used to make and shape things.

This tool can be used to build structures, organizations, fund projects or fund your own family.

We need this tool. We need to learn how to hold it in our hands and use it to begin a helpful idea or venture… use it to grow and develop something worthy that another person started, but needs help with their money-tool…so we come alongside with our toolbox and help them out….think modern day barn-raising.

Money, like any other tool, is neither good or bad. It all depends on how the craftsman decides to use it.

Our world needs money, we have a lot of people with lots of needs. We need money (our way of bartering) to meet these needs.

Let’s all (me included) take whatever time we need to figure out how to use this money tool…get it out of our toolbox, sharpen it up and start using it to build up.

Let’s not despise this tool, but take full advantage of it.

Think together with me….have I been misusing this tool, have I left it alone in the toolbox afraid to touch it? Have I been letting someone else use my money-tool that doesn’t know how it works and diminished its value? The tools in my toolbox are my responsibility.

What do I need to do today to take better care of and get more use out of this much needed tool?