Sweet Sounds From Heaven

 

The young couple lived in Atlanta and rubbed shoulders with the very rich. Met them at Georgia Tech where the Mr. graduated college. Sometimes, this country bumpkin really wondered about these wealthy people. Some of the things they could deduce baffled her mind. Oh well, not her job to figure it out.

One thing was for sure, they were rich with generational money. We just enjoyed the fellowship with the four adult children. Admittedly, it was impressive to see how the truly wealthy lived. A bird’s eye view from the surface, nothing could break that they could not fix. Something outstanding in her mind, is the year one of the adult kids got a stop watch for Christmas. A stop watch…. O.K.?!?

We were at their home horsing around in the formal living room when someone came up with an idea to play with the stop watch. We, included two Georgia Tech students, a Yale student, a Harvard student and can’t remember where the daughter was attending school, but somewhere impressive, you can be sure of that.

We glanced at the adjacent wide foyer and winding marble staircase and decided it would be fun to see who could run up the stairs into the bedroom, into the adjacent bathroom, flush the toilet, run back down stairs, jump over the marble foyer and land in the living room the quickest. O.K., the game was on. No one broke anything; impressive as the jump over the foyer was at least 8 feet wide. If we could master the leap from the 2^nd or 3^rd step, we often landed on cushy carpet instead of unforgiving marble. We enjoyed playing that game as much as anything we had ever done together, including attending football games. The game was appropriately named “Flush the Toilet.” Move over Monopoly. Truly out of the box thinkers are together again.

Heard it said, “if you have all the money in the world and don’t have your health, you’re a poor person.” What about that Peace money can’t buy, not to mention Love and Acceptance. Recently one of the brothers and close friend died in his late 50’s with complications from diabetes. I’m confident that people with big bucks and poor health would swap it out. All of the out of the box thinking in the world won’t take the place of good old common sense, waiting on God and doing things HIS way.

Money is simply a tool, a very good tool, but just a tool. 3^rd John 2 says it this way: Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in EVERY way and that your body may keep well, even as I know your soul keeps well and prospers. Father, help us to remember the 8^th chapter of Deuteronomy. That it is YOU who brought us out of bondage, gave us water out of a rock, and that it is YOU who gives us the power to get wealth. If money is not used for it’s intended purpose, when it’s all said and done, we might as well flush it down the toilet.

 

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