You’ve got resources even you don’t know you have.
Some years ago when I was Director of Development for a Christian College in eastern North Carolina. . .I went to see a successful farmer about a donation.
After giving the farmer my sales pitch about helping others . . . he began to tell me that he had not had a good year financially. He claimed that the year was even worse than the year before.
I knew something about his financial situation because his daughter attended the college and she was always talking about her Daddy.
For instance, I knew he’d purchased a new truck ($25K), a new Corvette for his wife ($30K), a new car for his daughter ($20K), a new tractor ($45K) and a new combine for harvesting his wheat ($50k). . .so I smiled and recited the lists of things that he’d paid cash for.
I will never forget how serious he was when he said “Yes, I paid cash for all that stuff. . . but I didn’t have any money left over to put in the bank.”













