President’s Pictures

As I looked at the pictures of presidents Jackson, Lincoln and Washington…I began to muse…I carefully folded them and put them back in my wallet. I couldn’t help but imagine the Treasury Department working around the clock printing more and more copies. All backed by good as gold “politician’s promises”. Perhaps they would even come up with a new denomination. It would have Obama’s picture on it. It would be worth one trillion dollars and have the purchasing power of one happy meal. On the up side that would be a politician's promise made good…CHANGE. He never said it would be change for the better. Perhaps I’m being unfair. Perhaps I just don’t understand. There are so many things I just cannot grasp. For example; if Jesus is happy with ten percent why does Uncle Sam get twenty-five percent? My, my…Publicans and tax collectors…it seems their reputation has not changed in two thousand years. I suppose I might as well give to Caesar what is Caesar’s…it surely won’t be worth anything to me.

Thank you, Lord Jesus, for being relevant in an irrelevant and irreverent world.

Amen