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Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy

Welcome to Day 60 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.

This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom.

It’s Only Money (Part 3)

Thank you for joining us for our 7 day a week, 7 minutes of wisdom podcast. This is Day 60 of our Trek, and today we will mine for some additional golden nuggets of wisdom. I hope you are ready to learn with me as you build your living legacy each day.

We are recording our podcast from our studio at The Big House in Marietta, Ohio. It has been a hot and muggy week here in Ohio but somewhat typical for the last week of July.  Our client workload remains busy this week, but I look forward to each day where we can share our daily lives together.  It is my hope that this podcast and journal provide you with information that impacts your life in a positive way.

On our Trek this week, we started down new trails in a series “It’s Only Money” with the theme of being on the trail of true riches. Yesterday we hiked along the trails of “What Money Cannot Do For You” and “What Money Will Do For You.” On both trails, we came to understand that money does not bring lasting security because we will never have enough. Money can also sprout wings and fly off like an eagle leaving us to wonder where it has gone. I know that you can probably relate to this. I know I can.


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Money can also sprout wings and fly off like an eagle.

Today we are going to examine the trail of “Money Attitudes.” So, let’s head on up the yellow brick trail to a land of financial contentment. This may very well be a foreign country to you.


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Yellow Brick Trail

There are a number of principles in the Book of Proverbs which should shape our attitude toward money. Some of these principles are:

1. Neither the possession of money, nor the lack of it are proof of your goodness or worthiness.

Within the faith community of our day, there are some that indicate that...