How Money Connects me to God

The air I breathe these days is filled with excitement. There are workshops, presentations, a gathering of women over a cup of Tea. The subject? Money as a Spiritual Entity, our relationship to it and how we are improving and deepening that relationship. Questions fill the room and reflections abound.
I come with my book "Money As Sacrament" as it presents my life's theme: how my immigrant father’s single minded ambition for making good in America paradoxically propelled my own ambition to a life of vowed poverty as a teaching Sister of St. Joseph; how later, out on my own, I addressed my own need to swell my coffers by overworking just like my father, not to mention dealing with a troublesome, substantial windfall after my parents died.
To add to my money’s spiritual vision, I met and married a college educated, once production but homeless Jim, forcing me to resolve cultural issues about his empty pockets.
Fourteen years later, I testify that I’ve never been happier. What Jim had money couldn't buy, a poetic sensibility, writing and editing skills and a love of everything real.
It amazes me how by God’s mysterious hand, all “found confluences” enlighten and educate the readers of my book. I walk in gratitude.