Clearly, the recent winner of the Powerball Lottery never need to worry about money again.  She will never need to work again, either.  Yet the timeless adage really is true: money can't buy happiness.
     In itself, money is not the root of all evil.  It is rather the love of money that is the root of all evil (see 1 Timothy 6).  Yet what does it mean to love money?  Is it to worship it?  To become dependent on it?  To make earning it the most important thing?  To allow it to make us different people?  Perhaps all of these things, perhaps even more.  In a financially driven age, it's very difficult to view money with a clear-eyed perspective.
     Think of money as a gift.  You would not be able to have it unless you had been born in a certain home, found certain opportunities, lived in a place in which you could make a living.  Yes, we earn it, but yes, we only earn it as a gift of how and where we and our lives began and proceed.  It's maybe too facile to say that money is a gift of God, for then we start asking why does he "give" some people money than others?  Nonetheless, the fact remains:  money is the gift of a God in a world infused with love and purpose.  As to what that purpose is, we cannot always say.  But we know it is present.
     And that, in the lens of eternity, makes all the difference.