Wow - what you could do with 6.2 million!!

The latest purchase of a rare blue dimond reached the exorbitant price of 6.2 million pounds. When I heard the news on the radio I was flabbergasted. All that money for a small stone. Just imagine if you were wearing the ring with the stone in and you lost it - how devastating would that be!

This weekend I ate lunch with a fantastic couple who live and minister out in Zambia. They work with such a small amount of money and yet see amazing results. Health care, education, self help for grandmothers left with their children’s family in the aids epidemic, care of orphans and much more.  What they could achieve with 6.2 million pounds! Even in this country there are many on the poverty line who struggle to survive who could do with help.

Isn’t there something wrong when so many people are living on next to nothing all over the world and yet one person can afford to buy a stone for 6.2 million pounds?