What is really precious in life?   Take a big piece of paper and on the left-hand side write down PRECIOUS and on the right-hand side of the paper write MATERIAL.

PRECIOUS                                                                          MATERIAL

Rose                                                                                              Expensive gold bracelet

Newborn baby                                                                          Red Ferrari automobile

Love                                                                                               Mansion worth millions

Sunset                                                                                         Outdoors furniture

Rainbow                                                                                       Beautiful diamond ring

Laughter                                                                                      Trip to Vegas

On the left-hand side, and you could add more, is things that are forever.   You can’t replace them.  A rose shows love, a sunset is so beautiful, a rainbow, and laughter come on.  These things are so precious.  They are real.   When you pass on to the other side you will remember the beautiful red rose in your mind, you will love your newborn baby, you will remember the sunset, the rainbow, and you will remember your and other’s laughter  You see these things are what’s important.

On the right-hand side is material possessions. The red Ferrari that can get smashed up in a car accident. The mansion worth millions can burn up in a fire, outdoors furniture gets old and falls apart. A beautiful diamond ring, superficial beauty, not real. The trip to Vegs. It’s just a trip and is nothing precious.

Material possessions come and go, but the real stuff lasts forever. All I’m saying is that you have to figure out what is really important in your life.

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Author Billie Jean Kotulski

Disclosure:  Billie Kotulski is not a minister.  She just speaks from her heart.