Easter is a time of renewal!

 

Easter is celebrated every year. It is a celebration of renewal. Renewal of God's love offered salvation. Renewal of God's Offer of eternal life. Renewal of God's promise of gifts to get us through our lives. As Spring renews the natural greenery, Easter renews God's great promises.

God offers everyone the hope of salvation. If we believe in his son, he will forgive our sins and allow us access to heaven. God does not want anyone to perish. He would like us all to live happily ever after. God loves us. We are his creation. He wants us to create, entertain, and be productive. God does not want anyone lost.

God wants you, me, and everyone else to live forever with him in Heaven. He wants us to accept the gift of eternal life. We are all priceless potentials of creation. We are all priceless family members of his creation. We are all worth the time as companions and co-creators. We are a priceless investment.

Until we are in Heaven sharing eternal life with God, we are promised gifts of the Holy Spirit to help us get through the afterlife. Everyone will eventually reach the afterlife, and until then, we can enjoy gifts of the Spirit from God. We can experience supernatural grace in the form of spiritual gifts. We can go through our days knowing God is real, as witnessed by his gifts. We do not have to go to the afterlife in blind faith.  

A living God who created the Heavens and the Earth can give us his loving forgiveness, eternal life, and gifts to get us through our days until the afterlife. God can also light the way to the door to the open tomb we will be leaving behind to enter eternal life. Dying with Christ on his cross, we can rise with him when our days are over. Let Easter renew your hope in these promises.          

Cost Of Living Wage

 

Our ancestors must have been gullible enough to work for anything less than a cost-of-living wage. A worker needs a place to sleep, something to eat, clean clothes to wear, and, when mature, a family to support. Craftsmen can always exchange their products for these needs, just as farmers can exchange their goods. To make the exchange of goods easier exchange bank checks can be issued with standard values among the exchange members.

Who can live on a wage that is beneath the cost of living? A daily wage should support one's needs for that day at least. A weekly wage should support one for a full week, etcetera, and so forth. Wages are not charity that should be given to workers as the boss sees fit. Workers have needs. They need to satisfy these needs with their wages. We need a minimum daily and weekly wage that satisfies our needs!

Craftsmen and farmers need a fair value return on their investment in time to produce their contributions for the marketplace. They cannot exchange a bed for a dozen eggs any more than a farmer can exchange a cow for a set of sheets. Fair exchange rates of time for time need to be established. Making a bed takes too long to exchange for eggs. Growing a cow takes too long to exchange for sheets. 

To facilitate these exchanges of labor for hire, goods for exchanging a bank check can be issued with time values. An hour's labor can be the smallest check, with a day's labor larger and a week's labor the largest. The average time to make a piece of furniture or grow a farm animal to maturity for harvest can be set as the time value of these items. Even a laborer could exchange their time for goods then, too. 

How long will it be until our time is valuable enough to exchange for goods in the marketplace only time can tell...