What Do You Make?

This question has become a very rude one to ask, because the social implication is a reference to earned income.  It hasn't always been that way, though.  "Make" used to actually pertain to production, not money.  For some of us it still does.  If someone asks me what I make, and they do . . . I tell them soap and cheese.  This response immediately produces the next question, "You make enough selling soap?"  In an effort to avoid looking at them dead on and telling them they just don't get it, I try once again, by saying.  I make quite a few things around here . . . but YHWH is my source of provision.  At that point, they can ask about Him or drop it all together.

I don't make books, or words, but I do a great deal of writing and I'm pondering another book.  I'm not knocking anyone out of first place on the New York's Best Seller list, but I do receive a 1099 Form to file income taxes, so they must be selling.  It's also kind of fun to receive an e-mail stating an auto deposit has been sent to my business account, but that's not what I make . . . I make truth available, I make information available, but the money is just the tangible proof that the words I put on paper have actually been obtained by others, and hopefully read.

I do have a soap and natural health product business in which everything sold is made or formulated right here in my own lab, by own two hands, including the labeling and the catalogue, as well as the web site.  I was blessed to have made acquaintance with a very talented artist a few years ago, who graciously offered illustration for a webpage.  I did the linking, the building and the formatting after he illustrated the main index page, as well as my personal page, and the soap page.  That was something he made.  There are still people in this country who are making things!  We are using our G-d given talents to "make a living."

We don't "make money" as that is what the federal reserve and US mint, somehow do.