Luke 12

Here is a chapter pretty tough to comment on, so I'll keep my remarks brief.

(12:13-21) This story is a great challenge and also strangely comforting all at the same time. As they say, "You can't take it with you," but that also means that it's not all that important right now. This was driven home to me just last week, when I was at a graveside service at a very large cemetery. One of the people who went with me found something surprising on the ground there: a one dollar bill--just blowing along the ground until it happened to come to rest on the grass. None of those tombstones were able to stop it or track it down or retrieve it for the people whose lives they represent. Maybe I'm not doing a very good job of communicating right now, but there's something about finding a dollar in a cemetery that really makes you stop and think...