God's Box

When I was three or four years old I was walking into the church foyer with my Mom on day when I noticed a wooden box affixed to the wall.  I asked her what the box was for, and she told me that it was a place for people to put their tithes before they walked into church.

My first thought? "I wonder how the money gets from the box all the way up to God*?" I remember seeing a small lock on the box and wondering if one of the Ushers had remembered to give Him a key to it. Eventually,  I decided that one of the duties of being a church Usher must be to stand in the church parking lot after everyone has left and throw all of the money that people had left in God's box high enough into the air that it reached heaven. Naturally, it took more than one attempt and required people who were physically strong enough to throw tithes such long distances.

Although I still had _no_ idea what God wanted with our money in the first place. ;)

*who lived in Heaven, a place I concluded was slightly above the highest cloud.