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No one cared that I slept through church. The older ladies gathered around me and called me \u201ccute.\u201d My skin was still splotchy, and my eyes were clenched tight, squeezing out the light. I was just five days old. My mother sat with her new baby in the second row, proud of her expanding family.<\/p>\n

$\"David$ I can\u2019t be sure, but there\u2019s a good chance that first sermon was on tithing. We got a lot of that in our little mountain church full of lower-class working congregants. There were bills to pay, and the pastor did all he could to keep the lights on.<\/p>\n

But I\u2019ve only recently discovered something new about giving. Only it\u2019s not just about my money, it concerns my time.<\/p>\n

Read the rest of this post over at the High Calling,<\/a> where I have the honor of being featured today..,,<\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"