This is the season that we remember we must die. Through the ages, this reminder was meant to spur on a desire to do good before it is too late, a desire to make a positive mark on our world, to promulgate virtue, to reach out for the happiness our God allows and for which He has built us.
“Money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money makes the world go round, go round. Money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money makes the world go round, go round.” If you have ever seen “Cabaret” and heard this song, then you know how sad and decadent it depicts Nazi Germany in the years just before World War II. In itself, money is indifferent. The two questions that money poses for us are: “How does it affect us?” and “How do we use it?”