It was a non-descript white envelope from someone I’d never heard of. June was going through the mail and offered to toss it, but I remembered it did have first-class postage on it. I opened it expecting yet another offer to help me with my mortgage (I don’t even have one!) or something like that. Turned out it was a settlement from a class-action suit. I’ve gotten those before, too, usually in the amount of $10.00 or so.

Not this one: it was a check for more than $1400.00!

I expect the low-key approach results in a lot of these being thrown away. That’s why the check expires in 6 months.

I wonder how many opportunities we miss when the “packaging” isn’t what we expected?

The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. He found Philip and said to him, “Follow me.” Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. Philip found Nathanael and said to him, “We have found him of whom Moses in the Law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.” Nathanael said to him, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” (John 1.43 – 46, ESV, emphasis mine)

For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, “He has a demon.” The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, “Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!” (Luke 7.33, 34, ESV)

The Pharisees answered them, “Have you also been deceived? Have any of the authorities or the Pharisees believed in him? But this crowd that does not know the law is accursed.” Nicodemus, who had gone to him before, and who was one of them, said to them, “Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he does?” They replied, “Are you from Galilee too? Search and see that no prophet arises from Galilee.” (John 7.47 – 52, ESV)