Tag: money

Good and Counterfeit Money

Jennifred Jones

Back in the day when only cash was used…

Bank tellers were trained in a very simple manner – learn what the real money looks, feels, and smells like and you’ll recognize counterfeit immediately.

This simple method works in many other areas.

Take a bite and chew the sweetness of an organic apple. Yum! Bite into a pesticide sprayed apple and experience the bitter taste on the skin. You’ll see.

Eat a slice of homemade cake using your own flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. True flavor! Premade and box mixes have the customary smell and bitter flavor of the BHA and BHTs added for preservation.

Real vanilla extract does not smell or taste like imitation vanilla flavoring.

Tempered solid steel tools, nuts, bolts and screws won’t break into pieces or lose their shape when the craftsman uses them. Imitation metals will and can be dangerous to use.

Even ideologies, philosophies, religions need to come under the counterfeit test…the test of histories past, civilizations won and lost, good and bad outcomes.

We are responsible to train ourselves to recognize right vs wrong, good vs. bad, healthy vs unhealthy. This comes through reading and learning from the past, studying and observation of events and peoples today, and thinking through what the future might look like depending on which is chosen.

We have been given a good brain. Let’s train it, use it, keep it sharp!

Decide not to let others do your thinking. Teach yourself. Learn. With practice, we will come to recognize good intentions and bad intentions even within ourselves.

Grow and see how much good you really do have to offer.

It’s there!

The Human Vending Machine

Jennifred Jones

This thought just now popped into my mind…’human vending machine’…

Is that all some of us feel we are, or are letting ourselves become?

Are we allowing others to ‘put money into us’ and take out of us what they want without our genuine approval?

This could go in a multitude of ways…in our job, in our family, in our friend relationships, etc., etc., etc.

Think about it…have we lost our humanity and become a vending machine where we allow others, no matter what their rank or status to stand before us and tell us what they want and we give it to them no questions asked?

Yes, we are to be giving, loving, helpful and serving others, but to be treated like a disposable machine with no say-so, no opinion of our own, only following the will of others is not how we were designed.

We each are a unique valuable piece of God’s creation with a purpose. We are not another cog in the wheel that can be replaced if broken off and discarded.

Every single one of us…you included!!!…has value and an output to give in this world that is your own style, with your trademark on it to be used to benefit this world.

You were not designed… created… to be a mere follow-a-longer, but to offer input, a different perspective, a good suggestion, a new way of doing the same old things.

You are not to quench or allow others to quench the you in you!

You have a right to think, and a right to speak up for yourself without another’s approval.

We do not have a right to withhold the good inside of us from coming out because someone else might not like it.

Remember, you are not a human vending machine, only giving out what others want or say. You are a human being with a free will and mind to use and develop and grow to become a strong and better person and help others become better stronger human beings, if in no other way than by watching you.

We have a big responsibility don’t we? But we are up for the challenge!

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?