Mrs.baughman Was My 6th Grade Sunday School ...  PRO

Mrs.Baughman was my 6th grade Sunday School teacher. One morning,

she brought a pan of brownies to our class. As the goodies sat over by

her chair, she gave each child a slip of paper marked with a household

expense: house payment, utility bill, phone bill, entertainment, etc.

My slip had a car payment. Before long, Mrs. Baughman picked up the

tray of brownies and began naming the expenses written on the papers.

As we gave her our expenses, she redeemed each one for a brownie.

"Car payment" she announced. I jumped up to get my brownie from the

pan. Finally the last brownie had disappeared. But one boy named Donald

still held his unredeemed slip.

"God!" called Mrs.Baughman. Donald came forward hoping the teacher had

one more brownie hidden some where. With a knife Mrs. Baughman scraped

the crumbs from the bottom of the pan into Donald’s napkin. He got a pretty

raw deal, I thought - just crumbs.

"The brownies represent your money", the teacher explained to us. "If you

don’t give God his share right away, He probably won’t get anything except

maybe the crumbs."

I never...