My Offering Dish

While I know that an offering dish should contain food I offer something much more unconventional. I put all my change in my dish. That could be viewed as disrespectful since I take the money as needed and therefore it could be viewed as just another place for storage, but disrespectful is one of the last things I would consider it as.

Being the poor college student I am money of any amount is kind of hard to come by. My fifty-seven cents could be my version of a single grain of rice. (For those that don't know the reference I am making I strongly recommend this reading...

http://www.sgi-usa.org/buddhism/library/Nichiren/wnd/concord/pages.view/pr-1125.html)