Playing the Long Game

"Freely ye received, freely give" (Mt 10:8)

“I love writing poetry, but I’m going to major in business to make money. Writing poetry isn’t practical.” So said a nine-year-old to me when I was teaching Sunday school.

I never considered money in discerning what I wanted to study in college. And, no, I did not come from money. I was a middle-class kid whose parents had little money when I was growin…