To number our days—teach us,
and we will bring a heart of wisdom. (Psalm 90:12)
My mother found this among my father's papers after he died in 2001. Years later, my sister scanned the image and sent it to my brother and me.
Tablet Magazine, 5/5/15
My father lived a life of heshbon: accounting and accountability. A carefully handwritten expense log of a family road trip to Maine and Nova Scotia in 1968 shows daily entries for mileage, destinations, meals, lodging, venue admissions and the like, with running totals weaving back and forth between currencies. Dad “numbered our days” to keep us all on track financially. (...)
Along with his call for tithing, the prophet Malachi highlights the need “to return the heart of parents to children, and the heart of children to their parents” (4:6). I discovered a common financial language with my father toward the end of his life, and now I seek out the money dialogue within and between generations. By sharing our stories, we can move toward more conscious sharing of the money itself. READ MORE
