Would you bend down for $100

Picture this.  It is a beautiful day, the sun is shining, the sky is blue, there is a light breeze and the temperature is perfect.  You are walking down the sidewalk without a care in the world and your favorite tune is playing in your head.  What could be better.

You look down and notice something in front of you.  As you get closer you notice that it is a $100 dollar bill.  There is no one around and you can tell that it has been there for some time so you know this is found money.  Your pulse quickens.

Do you bend over to pick it up?

Of course you do.  Why wouldn't you?

What if was just $10 dollars, are you still willing to bend over to pick it up?

I know I would but what if it was just $1, would you still be willing to put forth the effort?

What if it was a penny?

Is there a point where you consider it beneath you to bend over and pick up found money?

What if wasn't even real money...what if it was an aluminum can?  Would you bend over to pick up an aluminum can?

Many people will not stoop over to pick up a quarter.  Don't ask me why because I don't understand it.  I still bend over to pick up a dropped penny, and probably always will.  It is a sign to me and to the world that I welcome an increase in whatever form and whatever amount it comes in.  I am anxious to receive.

Wal-Mart is one of the largest retail businesses in the world daily doing millions in transactions.  Those transactions are not all million dollar deals but rather millions of dollar deals.  They pick up the penny millions upon millions of times a day and then do it again the next day.  That is how they got where they are and continue to be who they are today.

But what about the Bill Gates and the Warren Buffetts of the world?  I bet they don't bend over for the pennies and probably not even for the $100 bills.

You are right.  Why?  Because the sidewalk they are on has so many more opportunities of found money of all different kinds of denominations and they only have so much time in a day that they have to focus their time and efforts only on those things that will give them the most return for bending over to pick it up.  They have choice.

If you are not blessed to walk on those sidewalks, what do you do with the sidewalks to do walk?

Some are so busy looking for the big score that they miss out on the little things that can and do add up to the big things.

"For I feared thee, because thou art an austere man: thou takest up that thou layedst not down, and reapest that thou didst not sow."  Luke 19:21.

This is Ed Nef with a view from the Farrwest.