Old Mine Shares Found

What if an old envelope could change your morning—and your mindset? We open a forgotten file, find a 1964 certificate for shares in a British Columbia silver and copper mine, and feel that familiar rush of what-ifs. The imagination sprints ahead: debts cleared, gifts given, trips booked, problems solved. Then a quiet reading from Matthew 6 lands like a reset: where your treasure is, your heart will run. Suddenly the story isn’t about paper value; it’s about the pull of our attention and the peace that follows the right pursuit.
We talk candidly about how fast the mind trades trust for control when life tightens—finances, family plans, uncertain futures. A simple daydream can become a blueprint for anxiety, and before we notice, we’re worshiping outcomes instead of walking in faith. A powerful story of a man facing terminal cancer and sudden job loss turns the lights on. He welcomes his pastors with a smile and a sentence that reframes everything: God has an answer I don’t have yet. That posture isn’t denial; it’s the freedom that comes from treasuring what cannot rust or be taken.

Transcript

Welcome And Daily Intent

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Good morning and welcome to Starting Right with Danny Mack. I'm going to be here every Monday to Friday to help you get a great five-minute start to your day. So grab your cup of coffee, sit back, relax, and let me help you start your day right. I dropped by to see my mom the other day, and she'd been going through a lot of the files that were still in my dad's old office. My dad passed away about eight years ago now, and there was part of his office that still had a lot of his old papers and things in it, and mom was going through them, digging through and sorting and figuring out what she could throw away and what she needed to keep. She came across an envelope that she hadn't seen before. It looked a little bit older and it was fairly thick, but when she opened it up, it included a certificate for three hundred shares in a silver and copper mine here in British Columbia, purchased in 1964 by my grandmother. In 1968 she passed away, and there's a letter indicating there that the shares were transferred from my grandmother to my dad. It's all very interesting because nobody in the family knew about it. But all of a sudden we have this certificate showing 300 shares in this silver and copper mine. I honestly don't know if it's actually worth anything, but I'm sure gonna find out. In the meantime, though, uh I've been having a little bit of fun. Just thinking about what if. What if these shares are actually worth something? Maybe they're worth a whole lot of money right now. Uh somehow I doubt it, but it's been fun to think about it. To think about how we would spend it or give it away, all kinds of ideas for travel or whatever. It's not that I'm obsessed with it by any stretch of the imagination. It's just that I have had a lot of fun thinking about the what ifs. What if this has some value? I really hadn't thought much about the documents for a few days, but then just a few nights ago I was sitting in bed reading my evening devotions. It happened to be from Matthew chapter six, verses nineteen to twenty one. The Passion translation puts it this way Don't keep hoarding for yourselves earthly treasures that can be stolen by thieves. Material wealth eventually rusts, decays, and loses its value. Instead, stockpile heavenly treasures for yourselves that cannot be stolen and will never rust, decay, or lose their value. For your heart will always pursue what you value as your treasure. It was the last part of that verse that got me. The part where it says, My heart will pursue what I value as treasure. It made me stop and think about all the things that I had been worried about of the last while. There were some financial questions and stresses that I was thinking about. There are pieces about how the future is going to unfold in certain areas and ways for myself and my family over the next while that I was concerned about. And I realized that my focus had been on the what ifs. And I began to understand that without doing it on purpose and without realizing I was doing it, I had been shifting my focus from trusting God with what I needed for my life and in my life, and I was placing it on all kinds of what ifs. What if I could do this, or what if I could do that, or what if this happened, or what if that happened, and how I could put these pieces together to solve the problems? And the shares in the mind just added to those what ifs. I was not acting in faith. I was not believing the way that I need to. I remember hearing a story from a pastor who had received a call telling him that one of the members of his congregation had just been diagnosed with terminal cancer, plus the man's wife had just lost her job. The pastor called the elders of the church and some of the prayer warriors to come with him over to visit the man and his wife, to pray for them and encourage them. When they arrived at his house, they expected to see a man quite distraught and down, and instead the man greeted them with open arms and welcomed them with a big smile on his face. Nothing seemed to be wrong with him. The pastor said to the man, You seem so happy. What's what's going on? And the man looked at the pastor with some surprise. He said, What do you mean what's going on? I'm all excited because God's got an answer here that I don't have. I have no idea how this is going to work out, but God does, and I'm so excited to see what God does in the middle of all this for us. Isn't that an amazing attitude? And I realize that that's the attitude I need to have more often, not to let myself get worried about things not going my way and then trying to get all upset because I can't figure out how to solve it or how to change it or how to make it any different. I can't do that most of the time, and neither can you. There are too many things that we put upon ourselves that God wants us to put upon Him, to trust Him for and trust Him in. And when we do that, we get peace and release, and God begins to do some miracles in a most outstanding way. In a way that not only blesses us, but often it completely surprises us. So today I hope that you will let go of those things that you are worrying about, and you will trust God. Don't put your faith in a lottery ticket or an old copper and silver mine. Put your faith in God. Know that He has the answer for you, and nothing else will do. And yes, I am still going to find out whether that certificate for the mine is of any value or not. But you know what? I'm trusting God, and I'm not living in the what-ifs. I'm believing that he has everything under control. I hope you have a great day, my friends. Take care, be blessed, and we will talk again tomorrow. Thank you for joining us today, and I invite you to join us every Monday to Friday right here at Starting Right with Danny Mac.