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“No U-Hauls behind the hearse.”
I’m sure most of us have heard this at one time or another.
    Years ago there was a popular movie titled, “You Can’t Take It With You.”  The elite pagans throughout history had their most treasured passions’ buried with them; including their wives in some cases.  In some extreme cases, we read where if a wife should survive the man, the husband has left instructions for her to be slain and accompany him to the hereafter.
    How ‘bout them apples? Growing up, I did hear about a woman, who when her husband passed, came to the funeral home after he was laid-out, and slid a pack of Camel Cigarettes into his shirt pocket.  “He always carried them there when he was alive.  I wanted him to look natural”, she said.  Are we so tied to the world and its possessions that they possess us, and we not them?  Recently I heard on TV the interview of a woman who had survived an airline crash, “There was smoke and fire in the cabin.  People were screaming, trying to get out.  Of all things, I found myself trying to retrieve my laptop from the overhead compartment above my seat; I was blocking the aisle and the people behind me, who were trying to escape.  “Suddenly I came to my senses-what good is a laptop going to do me if I’m dead?”
The woman got out; some did not.  Said of the Bible character, Job: “Job’s hand did not cling to his possessions in prosperity.  Therefore he was not troubled by releasing them in poverty.”  Job had been very rich.
                            Kindest regards….