Gold!

Schmidt family discovers $300 in gold in Florida

“I cried like a baby,” describes Hillary Schmitt, 20, after her brother, Eric, showed her and the rest of the family the handful of gold on the boat. “His pocket was hanging (with gold) about down to the ground… It was an intense moment. We were all just screaming and crying.”

Who wouldn’t be running around crying with that fortune!

Now, I don’t want to rain on this parade.  Really! 

But from every world religion comes the same warning.  What can you give in exchange for your life?  (Psalms)  When you find the Kingdom of God like ONE coin lost in a house, a pearl in a field—go sell everything and buy it.  God rich young ruler, sell all that you have and give to the poor and you will have riches in heaven.    

The Buddha declares that all possessions cause suffering.  Material possessions POSSESS.  The attachment strangles the spirit.,  How can you be enlightened when you have yourself as your own object of attention? 

Forget the world religions.  I know a man who won the lottery when I was growing up.  The new wealth bankrupted him in many ways.  How many stories have been printed about lottery winners who lose their lives?

Ah!!!  That’s right.  Not me or you.  We’ve seen poor and rich and…rich is better.  Just give me that chance.  I wonder if it is true…that just wanting riches has the same influence as having them without the bank account? 

Maybe the Gospel reads—

Go and sell whatever your heart is set on and you will open your heart to the true riches of heaven.