You just never know how God is going to work.
When we decided to be entrepreneurs -no, let me rephrase that…
When God decided that we were going to become entrepreneurs, one of the words He spoke to us was, “Be flexible”. Hmmm, that sounds a little scary.
One barn that I knew we needed to build (see post from 17 July) was to find a good accountant. Someone who would understand that we have two purposes for our money:
1) Honor God and give generously into the building of His Kingdom
2) Build our family’s future
Oh, and one more thing to understand: Giving to the government does NOT fit in to either of those purposes. I don’t want to do anything illegal, but I want to render unto Caesar ONLY the bare minimum required.
So, I asked several businessmen and tax preparers in our community who they would recommend. One name kept coming up. In fact, when I mentioned that I would be doing a lot of stocks, options and futures, his was the only name that came up, as having the experience that my situation required. So I met with him yesterday.
I was impressed with his knowledge, honesty, and professionalism. One thing that struck me as odd, was that when he needed to call his professional organization to ask them a technical question, we had to leave his office and walk to the shed outside (where he had a desk with a calculator and a phone) to call them.
Odd? Not if you’re Amish.
How many stock traders do you suppose have an Amish accountant?
1 Comment
July 31, 2007 at 7:50 am
Amish accountant?? God does have an ironic sense of humor. It is amazing to me that the more “technologically advanced” we get the more we prize simplicity and honesty. More power to you and your accountant. My question is, shouldn’t he have a slide-rule on his desk instead of a calculator?