Tell Them It’s Raining!

The “Dear Abby” Columnist, Abigail Van Buren, received the following letter from a frustrated reader:

Dear Abby: My husband hates to spend money! I cut my own hair and make my own clothes, and I have to account for every nickel I spend. Meanwhile he has a stack of savings bonds put away that would choke a cow. How do I get some money out of him before we are both called to our final judgment? He says he’s saving for a rainy day.

The letters was signed, “Forty Years Hitched.” Dear Abby wrote the following response:

Dear Hitched: Tell him it’s raining!

“Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God,” the Apostle Paul wrote (Heb. 13:16). Paul was telling his Christian brothers and sisters that the experience of God’s super abundant Love which Christ opens up to His followers is not meant to be saved — for a rainy…