Once upon a time there was a child, the apple of everybody’s
eye in the small village. He spent his childhood flitting from one smile to
another. No fear, no hurting, not even a single twinge of sadness filtered into
his life. No wonder he wanted to give back what he received, so one fine day he
decided to become a priest, thinking it was the best way for doing that. He was
over the moon when he got into the college. All was just turning up the way he
planned. Then he met his colleagues. They were like chalk and cheese, funny colorful
fellows – each and every one of them, having different social and financial
backgrounds, different beliefs,
different tastes. The one thing they had in common was their motivation. They
all thought that the god business is a good business. Neither his teachers were
any different. Some of them even requested an amount of money to give the
students permission to sit in their exam. No need to say he was bitterly
disappointed. However, he graduated from that university and started
practicing as a priest in his home village, where to his surprise the series of
disappointments persisted. An elderly lady came to confession. After she
enumerated her sins she handed over an envelope containing a sum of money
hoping her sins would be more easily forgiven; the mayor came to his office and
asked him without any trace of shame to promote his campaign after service. Once
again he found himself holding an envelope before having the chance to disagree
on the proposition. It was only then he started to realize what his former
colleagues were talking about. Money simply kept flowing into his bank account without
pulling his finger out. One day he remembered why he wanted to follow this path
in life and decided to try his luck someplace else. He got himself a meeting
with the archbishop and requested a transfer to a church in a town. It cost him
an arm and a leg, but he got what he wished for. It was all over again the same story in
different clothing. Today people simply just
buy everything may it be of material or spiritual value.
Let’s just keep telling ourselves that we make the money and
not vice versa.