A Vacuum Conundrum…

Our kids have been asking questions about storms and wind. I’ve explained to them in simple terms that ‘more always goes to less’ and it’s that transfer of dense, cold air into hot, less dense air that creates wind and can produce rain and storms.

“Nature abhors a vacuum” is the common adage. And so it does.

In a wiley thought process this morning, I’m looking at the calendar and on 3 January, I have been a baptized believer in Jesus Christ for 12 years. Then I thought of our new church plant, New Life Deaf Fellowship, and when we could have our first baptism service… thinking how it would work at the church room we’re in currently… a tub, maybe… then a hose out the window afterward to drain the tub… and it hit me.

Everything works on a ‘more goes to less’ basis… except… money.

Money is the only thing that rarely – or automatically certainly – goes from more to less.

… something to think about isn’t it?

I couldn’t sleep last night, so I perchanced on a Bloomberg interview with Max Levchin, a co-founder of Pay Pal and when it was bought out by Ebay made Mr. Levchin a multi-millionaire… but the part that made me sigh was after Pay Pal he apparently didn’t know what to do with himself. He explained in the interview how one day his new wife told him to “go rent an office somewhere and figure out what to do next.”

So he rented an office in San Francisco just to go and “figure things out.” Nice.

Truly, I was happy for him… but it struck me how great it would be if money flowed like cold air into the hot hands of, say, a missionary family looking for a way to start a simple deaf learning center for a measly couple of thousand a year (smile)… Mr. Levchin couldn’t think of anything to do so he rented a $1,200 a square foot office space and “figured out what to do.” (incidentally, he figured out the next wave on the internet is virtual worlds with virtual economies… that’s right, he explained that people are now willing to pay “real money for virtual products.”)

I say again, money is the only thing that doesn’t flow from more to less… well, that and maybe intelligence (smile).