Everything we have costs us something; however, a high cost doesn’t necessarily translate to high value.  Here are my versions of a few definitions that we typically apply to materials that I am applying to relationships:

PRICE…

What you must pay to acquire whatever you want to possess.

VALUE…

How you esteem what you’ve acquired and your commitment to maintaining your possession of it.

WORTH…

The Ratio of Actual Price to Esteemed Value.

BARGAIN…

Paying a small price for what you greatly value.

When you reconcile your relationship accounts, does the bottom line make you realize that you need to make a greater investment, or does the bottom line suggest it’s time for you to close the account and write off a negative balance?

“Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly nor stands in the path of sinners nor sits in the seat of the scornful; But his delight is in the law of the Lord, And in His law he meditates day and night.  He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper.”  Psalm 1:1-3