Burning Strength Homilies

  “What’s a worthwhile investment to you?” This was the question one of my professors posed to us students as he started the class. I wasn’t a business major, but immediately my mind went to investing money. I think if we were to get that question today, that’s where most of our minds would have went. But he took the question a bit further. “most of the time we want a good return on our investments…” We expect that a movie will be good when we spend time and money at a movie theatre to watch one of the latest films. We expect that if we make a financial investment in the stock market, some time later, we’ll get a return of sorts. If we send our kids or ourselves to get music lessons or sports clinics, we believe that it should help. When we buy food in the grocery store or at a restaurant, we expect it to be good And when we use our utilities at home, we expect them to operate as they were made to. And the professor then looked around the room at ea