some

tonight i had the pleasure of watching a full NBA playoff game
i work nights and so rarely get to see an entire game

not that i am a sports freak
a little tennis, some football, some olympics, some cricket
but i like pro bball

i was thinking .....
the 2 teams, Spurs and Heat
the top 3 players of each team
that's 6 men

how much you figure they pull in, taken together ?

Wade, Heat,     $ 17,182.000
Bosh, Heat       $ 17,545,000
James, Heat     $ 17,545,000
Duncan, Spurs  $ 10,000,000
Parker, Spurs   $ 12,500,000
Ginobli, Spurs   $ 14,107,000
(Duncan cut his potential salary in 1/2 in 2012 to allow the Spurs to bring new players in)

a tally would yield $ 88,879,000

that's 88 million, eight hundred and seventy-nine thousand dollars
just over $11m short of one Billion dollars ...
a year

almost a billion dollars a year for the top 6 players
(and they are not the top 6 highest paid in the NBA)

selah . . . . ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~


imagine .......... . . . .. ... . .. ...

what could 'we' do with that money
every year

man .... the thought boggles the mind ...
not their salaries
but what we could do with that kind of money

feed hungry people
clothe others
shelter the homeless
warm the cold
counsel the hurting, the confused, the abused, the lost
... help the hurting

and that's just my ignorant-of-the-real-magnitude-of-the-problem mind working
at 2:15 a.m.

there's probably a list 10 times that long

a thought ....

i don't have $BIL 1 a year

but i have

i have
some money
i can give
not much, but some

i have
some time
i can give
not much, but some

i have
some
energy
inclination
impulse
motivation
love

i have some
and i want to be
giving it away
to some of the people on that list

not many, but some
i can't help many
just some

maybe one
tomorrow
or saturday
another
saturday
or tomorrow

a little
but it's some-thing
some-one
in need
and
i
have
some

i want
to give
my some

in Jesus' name

Then the King will say to those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by My Father, 
inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
For I was hungry and you gave Me something to eat;
I was thirsty and you gave Me something to drink;
I was a stranger and you took Me in;
I was naked and you clothed Me;
I was sick and you took care of Me;
I was in prison and you visited Me.’

Then the righteous will answer Him, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You something to drink? 
When did we see You a stranger and take You in, or without clothes and clothe You? 
When did we see You sick, or in prison, and visit You?’

And the King will answer them, ‘I assure you: Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of Mine, you did for Me.’