Last night we talked until 5AM.
It wasn't that we had nothing else to do- we both had things to do early this morning. It was that this was more important. It was that the things we were discussing actually mattered. And they mattered more than a 7:45 class and more than 8:30 workstudy. They mattered in life.
And so we talked.

We talked about what this Jesus we follow really means. We talked about how the actions and lifestyles and mindsets of other Christians really rips into us. We discussed how we should change that in our own lives. We talked about what it meant to be God-copyers.

In our country, you can give twenty percent of your income without it even hurting. The government allows you to deduct what you give away up to twenty percent on your taxes. We don't think tithing should fall under that. We talked about it, and we think that you should give that twenty percent and then give ten percent to the church. And that if, after that, you put ten percent away in a savings account that you don't touch, it is proven that you will live very comfortably when you retire because it really does build up that much. Even if you don't make that much each paycheck. So, if we chose to live on sixty percent of our exhorbitant incomes, we would end up doing so much more in our lives and we would be totally taken care of when we were old. It just makes sense. Why haven't we thought of this before??