One More Week

It has been another week in the life of the Welches here in the beautiful Cache Valley. Dirt roads still draw a straight line to pictures of farming fields of isolation while cows and horses fill the air with smells of money. ll These two lines represent the straight and near path to heaven. S While this represents the crooked path that leads us away from God. Some of us think that we can have both roads in our lives and still get to heaven. But, when you put both together you get $$ (this is suppose to be one S and two ll) and this was the rich man's weakness... loving money more than God.

Bishop Roe told it so much better.

In Sunday School, he told the story about a man that started collecting earthly treasures. He would attend auctions, garage sales, estate sales, and any place that would sell little pieces of gold or precious stones, etc. Each time, he would return home his wife would question the wisdom of this after all he would take it up into the attic and put it in a small box where it was never seen. After each time of being criticized he would say to his wife, "Don't worry, when I die I'll stop by the attic on my way to heaven and pick it up." Finally, the day came when he was called to the other side. After the funeral services and the burial the wife came home and remembered the box in the attic. Hurrying, she climbed the stair and went into the attic. Sure enough there was the little box. Opening it, she found all the small treasures of the past years still there. Looking up to heaven she quietly prayed, "I knew it. He should have put this box in the basement."

So often in life we place our efforts towards the riches of the world and not the things that really count.

I need to ask the question the rich young man ask our Lord and Savior, "Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?" Mark10:17