Day 78: Digging Down Deep

Church — $150.00
Today’s offer­ing was par­tic­u­larly large. I hadn’t bud­geted for it but will fig­ure out a way to absorb it — prob­a­bly out of my own small per­sonal sav­ings account.

After the ser­vice last week our priest gave a short, infor­mal talk about the sta­tus of all the US con­gre­ga­tions and priests and com­mu­ni­ties. He told us that each con­gre­ga­tion is respon­si­ble for con­tribut­ing $5,000 each year to the fund that sup­ports retired priests and wid­ows. Though the retire­ment fund was the moti­va­tion behind my digging-down-deep con­tri­bu­tion, I did not specif­i­cally ear-mark it for that pur­pose because I believe our trea­surer and priest are best suited to make those finan­cial determinations.

Ein­stein Bros Bagels — $15.78
Instead of wait­ing until after church, the kids and I ran to Einstein’s dur­ing the ser­vice so we could share bagels with the con­gre­ga­tion between the ser­vice and the gath­er­ing after­ward. It was a deci­sion that was well received by both the con­gre­ga­tion and my kids — that way they could eat and I could attend the meet­ing with­out them plead­ing star­va­tion and want­ing to go — now!

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1. Bagels & Shmear
2. $$: Bagels on Sunday
3. Day 1
4. Day 120: Food and Charity
5. Day 260: Bagels and BPA-Free Nal­gene Bottles