God and Dollars

Ella LOVES dollar bills. Poppy gives her one each time he sees her, and she has quite a collection of money (more than mama and daddy, we think). She keeps a very close eye on her money. When she sees dollars around the house, she quickly asks, "Whose money is that?" Last week, she took three dollars to school and told the children's pastor during chapel that they were from her Poppy and were for drinks and Donald's. We had no idea that she'd even taken the money to school, so we are keeping a closer watch now on what leaves our house by way of little pockets. Yesterday, she received a Valentine card from Papa and MiMi that had FIVE dollars in it. She was so amazed! After we put it away, Ella and I talked about taking some to church for our offering. I told her that we always give some to God. She asked where God was going to be. I told her that the church is God so that when we give to the church, we are giving to God. She thought on this for a while and asked, "Will God give it back?" We are REALLY going to have to work on this money obsession!