There is an old adage which has God saying: “Take what you wish - take it and pay for it.”

That puts us immediately into the heart of our theme today: There is a Price For Everything.

There is truth in that saying that the best things in life are free but we have to be careful about that. It isn’t absolute truth. Certainly we can’t buy love, but isn’t there really a price tag on love? How can we appropriate the love of a husband or a wife without paying the price of attention and tenderness, caring and the disciplined giving of our time?

How can we appropriate the beauty of God’s creation? To be sure it is gift, extravagant gift on the part of God. But how dull we are to that beauty? How often do we fail to allow that beauty to bathe our souls because we do not have eyes to see? We have…