You Can't Take It With You. (Or Can You)?

I just tuned into the internet/radio broadcast, “Night Sounds,” and its dearly departed host, (since the broadcasts were taped over the course of decades,) Bill Pearce. And with his famous baritone, he began the show with a question.

“Did you know there are 8 billionaires in Chicago?”

And I’m immediately prone to think of the Egyptian pharaohs who lived and died before the birth of Christ, and who built the most amazing burial edifices to themselves, and had them stocked with the most equally amazing treasure trove; which in death did them

… absolutely no good

(since)

while their mummies moldered, their riches were carted away by grave robbers.

As the old adage goes, my friends, no one ever pulled a U-Haul behind a hearse.

We simply can’t take it with us.

… or can we?

Well, yes and no. (Or perhaps better put, no and yes).

They’ll be no taking it all with us, for as scripture admonishes us,

“Naked you came into the world, and naked you shall return.”

No, in the traditional sense of the word, we aren’t going to take a thing with us,

(but)

Yes, (upon reflection) it occurs to me that we will be granted the inestimable privilege of taking something with us. As a matter of fact, two somethings;

… our eternal destiny

(and)

… our impact on our fellow human beings.

By William McDonald, PhD. Excerpt from "(Mc)Donald's Daily Diary" Vol. 12

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