Day 7 - Parent's Prayer

Welcome to Day 7 of the Jamboree. Has your scout been Thrifty? Perhaps they've been thrifty with water in the showers and less thrifty on the bank account. Or is it visa-versa?  Being thrifty also extends to how they  spends the most scare resource of all: their time. Was it spent solely in pursuit of elusive patch collections? Did they make friends along the way? Were they able to get out and see even 20% of what the Jamboree has to offer (it's really really big so actually seeing 20% and doing 5% would be good).

A Scout is Thrifty.  A Scout works to pay his own way and to help others. He saves for the future. He protects and conserves natural resources. He carefully uses time and property.

Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
--Calvin Coolidge

 

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
- Woody Allen

"Shall I . . . gather wealth and breed it —

For my children jealously conserve it?

Should my sons surpass me, they won't need it;

Should they not, why then, they won't deserve it."

Chinese Proverb - from Chips of Jade

With money in your pocket, you are wise and you are handsome and you sing well, too.

-Yiddish proverb

Proverbs 10:4-5 (NIV)

Lazy hands make a man poor, 

but diligent hands bring wealth.

He who gathers crops in summer is a wise son,        

but he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son.