The other half...

Tonight I got to see how the other half live. The other half being people with money - lots of it. I guess that's not a totally true statement since I work for people with money and see how they live all the time. Anyway, tonight I had a new 'other half' experience, in downtown Toronto.
Can you tell I'm tired?! teehee!
Tonight I worked. I'll share more on that a little later.
I come from a middle class family. I attend a poor church(kinda), a church that does its best(in areas) to cater to the poor, the marginalized. In september I will become what some might consider an 'urban missionary'- living with, befriending and sharing the gospel with those poor, marginalized people in Canada's poorest postal code. After that who knows where I'll be...but its pretty much a missionaries life for me from here on out. What does that mean? No money. Am I concerned? Not in the least.
Now about my night. Like I said, I *worked* tonight. For those who don't know what my work is, I am a nanny. I take care of two young children(Jack-3 years & Charlie-3 months). Its fun in the sense that I get to be a kid all day, every day. And exhausting in the sense that I'm utterly pooped by the time I get home, and I'm useless for a friday night! But tonight I got to hang out with Charlie in one of the fanciest hotels in Toronto(all on somebody else's tab!). I played with him, bathed him and put him to bed. It was a pretty boring night, actually. But I did get to order room service(for the first and probably last time ever), I got to raid the mini-bar(lots of yummy, expensive chocolates), and I got to rent as many movies as I wanted(at $14.00 a pop! YIKES!). So after I finished eating my steak dinner(which they served on a private table in front of the tellie with more silver than I knew what to do with), and watched Johnny Depp in 'Finding Neverland(great movie, I cried at the end!), I got to thinking that I would never have the resources to live like this. The question is do I want them?

Sometimes when I'm being selfish and having a 'woe is me' day, I think I would like to have some more money in my bank account, or more savings put away for the future or retirement. Then I think about my ultimate future; my heavenly future. Its the only one that matters to me. But in the mean time, I'm going to pray for much more humility in my life. Because to answer my own question - no, I don't want them. Storing up earthly possessions(?) just isn't worth it.
Now I'm of to Neverland!

Blessings.