“Wealth must be seen as a responsibility, not as a privilege. The responsibility is to create more wealth. It’s like having an orchard; you have to give away the fruit, but not the trees.” Carlos Slim is now the world’s richest man. His wealth angers his fellow citizens in a country known for its poverty, but I love this quote and he’s as much a philantropist as he is a businessman.
We all have been given gifts that we are stewards of. For some, like Mr. Slim, that gift is money, but most of us are “differently blessed”. We have skills that others can benefit from, or some material good that comes to us in abundance (like eggs
), or even just the simple gift of time. They are gifts given to us by God, not something owed us, and it is our responsibility to use them to bless others, to tend our orchards, to give away the fruit while nurturing the trees.
What are you blessed with and how do you share that?