Money Money Money Money

With all this talk about keeping our jobs our mission it seems appropriate to talk about how getting paid comes into all of this.  In prior entries, I commented that health care began as a free service provided as a mission by Nuns in people's homes.  I also suggested that we have to be careful not to allow money to cause us to lose focus that our job is not about us, but about helping others. 

Yet, I recall reading a book, Thou Shall Prosper by Rabbi Daniel Lapin a few years ago.  He stated that when people are willing to pay us for something it means that we have something that is valuable to share.  He suggested that too many people look at moving money from one person to the next as an evil transaction.  He stated that when we are able to provide a service that others are willing to pay for, we should work to improve upon providing that service.  He also stated that we should learn to love what we are good at doing if what we are good at doing is valuable to others.