We have chosen a well known sound bite for our title. "For Love or Money" puts the question where Jesus summed it up: "No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon."

Here the idolatry of the Old Testament is boiled down to a choice between "mammon" or money or the "stuff" of this world or another "master." Our chosen title suggests the other "master;" love.

The Bible is the written disclosure of The Love of God. In It, God's love is presented against a background of human frustration, failure and dysfunction. In our frustration we make bad choices. The Love of God is the better choice. "Mammon" or the world's stuff is not the wise choice. This book and the Bible are all about "choosing wisely."

Cast out of the first paradise, the Biblical source couple for the human race set out toward the east in the direction of the "good gold" of the land of Havilah. This good gold turns out to be about The Love of God. As with so many other created things, Gold is a parable.

In the past 40 years of looking deeper into the gold of Havilah, the author has concluded that there is something more. It is this better than "good gold" that is explored here and offered to those who are looking for the greater meaning of the mess we're in.