Comments on: Seeing With the Eyes of a Child

By: ekgeroldmiller

ekgeroldmiller — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 03:03:51 +0000

I spent a semester in Hungary in 1990 and visited Poland for a weekend. It cost me $3 to get there by train. I bought a beautiful hand-carved chess set for $3, which I still have, and a very warm lamb’s wool sweater, which I am presently wearing, for $2. I remember the pathetic zlotys and the poor citizens as you described. This is a moving piece. Thank you for writing. I found your story through Leticia Velasquez’s blog Cause of Our Joy.

By: Katherine Carlman

Katherine Carlman — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:27:35 +0000

jj,

Thank you for sharing your experience; I appreciate your support.

K. Carlman

By: Mary Kochan

Mary Kochan — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:08:37 +0000

Ok, sorry; it was very late at night when I was changing her first person bio to third person — obviously, I missed some stuff. It is fixed now, but might not show up unless you refresh or log out and back in. This is in no way a reflection on Katherine. Thanks for the alert and anytime you are ready to be a volunteer proofreader, let me know.

By: jmtfh

jmtfh — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:03:07 +0000

Katherine Carlman has an M.A. in Eglish and teaches at 2 colleges? This paragraph changes “persons” a few times, changes tenses, and is missing punctuation!

Ooops?!? Either Katherine or the person who reprinted this article needs a proof reader!

By: jjen009

jjen009 — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 07:08:53 +0000

Catherine – I recall, nearly 40 years ago, when I was 27 years old, and a brand-new Christian (I wasn’t brought up a Christian), very excited about being a Christian, I went to Church – Lutheran Church this was, though I am a Catholic now – to the evening service that was for young people. And I brought my Jewish friend.

After the service, having a cup of coffee, a young woman was enthusiastically talking about how she had been convicted of the good of tithing, and how I should do it.

I was recently divorced, in debt, a University drop-out, driving a taxi for a living. “Hey, that’s great, but just at the moment …” And the excuses came out.

And my Jewish friend – hey, I thought he was supposed to be my FRIEND, for goodness’ sake – responded, “Hey, jj, if tithing is part of the trip [this was 1970, remember], then you ought to do it!”

Sigh.

So I did.

I have tithed ever since. My wife and I (the first marriage was null) have actually tried to stop a couple of times. Found it impossible.

We’re broke. But I’m not starving, still paying the bills, somehow. I don’t pay attention to the “you can’t out-give God” noise – I wouldn’t know. I just know that what He has done for me is so infinitely more than what I could ever do for anyone else that tithing is just a tiny little token of thanks to Him. I just take it out first, then what’s left is to manage with.

Just thought it would be worthwhile passing that on. God bless you in whatever you do and however you manage your finances.