Socks

I love a good pair of socks…and I have some really good ones. It is getting close to an obsession for me to start the day off right with a good pair of socks. So when I open my drawer and don’t find the quality of socks I want, it makes me a little frustrated.

I don’t like socks with holes in them. I don’t like ultra-thin socks. I don’t like patterned socks (you know with the super sized paisley pattern). I don’t like socks that have very much polyester in them. I am on the verge of becoming a sock snob.

However, there is a problem!

Leigh-Ann likes good socks too…and I own most of the good ones. Yes, we are married and everything in our household is joint (i.e. checking account, house, etc). The truth is when we married, we both vowed for better and for worse…we said nothing about socks.

So you can imagine my frustration, when I end up settling to wear a less than desirable pair of socks and late in the day, I notice that she is wearing MY GOOD SOCKS!

This really socks!

I know you are all probably wanting to say, “Dude, she’s pregnant…just let her use the socks.” For some reason that doesn’t work with me…she may be carrying my only boy, but that doesn’t give her a free pass to wear my socks.

So at the risk of driving this story into the ground, why is it so difficult for me to give away the control of the sock drawer? Why do I try to hoard all the good ones?

1. I like what I like and I don’t like it when people mess with what I like.

2. I know how it makes me feel when I get to wear my good socks and my good socks make me feel good.

3. WARNING: This is my spiritual answer: When I feel good, I can help others feel good. So now, wearing my good socks is a ministry to myself and ultimately to others.

Unfortunately, this is how I reason with other things too…I have a natural tendency to rationalize (and even spiritualize) my personal desires at the expense of others.

THIS SUNDAY, I am beginning a 4 week series entitled, “The Teaching of Jesus on Wealth.” YOU WILL NOT WANT TO MISS…It will be different than you expected, in a good way!

It’s no secret that talking about money is a difficult topic. My goal for this series is to give you encouragement and hope for difficult times and a challenge to live beyond our finances for life.

I hope you can come…if not the sermons are posted on the web: http://newlifekc.org/resources/deploy/.

And for the record, I did find a good pair of socks for today and hopefully Leigh-Ann did too.