I agree. The lord loves a cheerful giver. As you get older your bills become more or less fixed. I dont need a new car, a boat, new shoes every month, designer hats, sports jerseys, rap concert tickets, bar bills every weekend. Im not sick, If I find someone who deserves help, Ill help them.
My experience has been that people tend to be cheerful givers early on in life or they don’t.
If the research looks at people individually, and their, tithing and other charitable giving early on and then compare it with their later years, then maybe they may have something there.
I have a neighbor, and she’s in her 80s. She still sharp, but she tends to get taken in by these hackers to their phone or computer. You know what I’m talking about ie the hacker says you owe money to the IRS, OR YOUR COMPUTER OR PHONE IS FROZEN, you have to call this number to unlock it....etc.
She’s lonely, and she gets taken in.
She doesn’t have Alzheimer’s. Her husband died a few years ago, her kids don’t come around as much, and she’s lonely.
Alzheimer’s? I want to tell the people who wrote this article to go do something to a rope....
Good on you. I live very well on a limited income, can always spare some money for our local Union Gospel Mission because they do excellent work getting drunks and druggies off the streets, sober, housed, and often get them jobs.
Also love animals and give $$ now and then when our local shelters are overwhelmed. They are now, as poor people are forced to give up their pets when they can’t afford to feed them thanks to shutdown job loss. And I feed three stray cats that I love. They get the same excellent crunchies I buy for my cat.