Rev Grace Simons –

In our culture, money is key to goods, services and influence. We’re warned that, ‘A fool and his/her money are soon parted.’ We worry about getting a good price for things. We have an incoming President who says paying no taxes means he’s smart. What does that make regular taxpayers? What about being stingy – or generous? After all, we’ve just been through the season of Scrooge and Santa. What a tangled knot! No wonder we get tense and secretive when it comes to money. Let’s begin to tease that knot apart.