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First came the Monk who simply said, “Material is immaterial to us. Every year we take the offerings and we throw them up in the sky. They land where they land and the poor will find them somehow. It is Karma, no argument is necessary.”

Then the Priest said, “I wish it was that simple for us. We have expenses, pillows for the worshipers, stained glass windows, flour for our bakery, etc. So we have a system. Every year we do financial projections. We calculate how much money the Church needs and how much we can afford to give away to the poor. Based on that, we draw a circle of a precise radius and we throw the money up in the sky. What lands inside the circle goes to the treasury and what lands outside goes to the needy. It is a wonderful system, eliminating many arguments.”

Finally the Rabbi spoke, “We believe in the wisdom of the Almighty. We take our money and throw it up in the sky. What God wants, he keeps. What he doesn’t, we keep. We never had any argument.”

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taken from Make Money Then Make Meaning by Denny K Miu at LoveMyTool (http://www.lovemytool.com/blog/2008/01/bootstrapping.html)