Pauline and I checked out the price of tickets for Wimbledon Final this week, changing hands at a cool $6,200:00 apiece, we won't be going anytime soon.
But, by way of perspective in a wacky world, this week also saw the sale of Constable's painting "The Lock" for $76,000,000. , the most expensive bottle of Champagne sell for $35,000 in Paris and a hockey star sign a ten year contract for $103,000,000.
When the average yearly wage of a worker in India is $2,500 and people are existing in Saharan Africa on less than a dollar a day I begin to wonder, if indeed, the world has gone completely bonkers.
Then will someone please remind me that the best things in life are truly the things that are free: the gift of good health, of old and trusted friendships, the beauty of an evening sunset, the joy of a newly born grandchild and the gospel of salvation through Jesus Christ.
Such things, compared with the other wonky stuff, help to put us back on an even keel and know that "with God in His Heaven all will be right in His earth."
Jubilate.
Ian
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