Trash Is As Trash Does

So was Joan Rivers right the other night? Are poker players "beyond white trash?"

You might be tempted to respond that "it takes one to know one." But we wouldn't stoop to that approach.

Poker is a game which can be played by all kinds of people -- and indeed it is. Grandparents play it. Teenagers play it. Hollywood celebrities play it. (Dare we bring Brad Garrett up again?) And supposedly notorious badlands outlaws played it, more than 100 years ago.

We think "trash" isn't always based on the game you play, but how you play it. And we don't mean effectiveness in playing hands and winning pots.

Ephesians 4:2 suggests believers "be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love." We've met poker players who actually try to live this way. Not all of them do, but enough for us to know you don't pull out the "whitewash brush" to describe them -- or in this case the white-trash brush.

If you don't play and live the way Ephesians 4:2 suggests, give it a try. Prove Joan Rivers wrong. You might actually gain respect and friends at the poker table if you do.