Balancing Kiwis

This is so cool :

“Billionaire Warren Buffett giving his fortune away

“Brace yourself,” billionaire Warren Buffett warned with a grin during an interview with Fortune magazine. He then described a momentous change in his thinking. Within months, he said, he would begin to give away his Berkshire Hathaway fortune, worth well over $40 billion.”

This is brilliant.  Buffet is giving it away now, and so many will get to benefit.  Interestingly enough, he states his plan was to wait until after he died, but his thinking has changed radically and he is choosing to do something NOW.

This is a shift in thinking that may reflect a move in our culture from “leaving a legacy” to “living a legacy”.  The world needs NOW, children are starving NOW, people are hurting NOW, and we get a chance to impact that NOW.

We get to BE the church, not to attend it.  We get to BE a light for the world.  And light doesn’t only attract . . . it seeps into the everywhere darkness or twilight sits.  May we BE a people who do not settle for leaving a legacy after we pass away - let us live it NOW.

“Pursue a life of love as if your life depended on it - and it does” - Message 1 Cor 14:1

 Now.

(See full article here)

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