The Unremembered Days of a Satisfied Life
Photo credit Suzanne Jaton Click here to listen to this sermon. “He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income; this also is vanity… [But] e veryone to whom God has given wealth and possessions and power to enjoy them, and to accept his lot and rejoice in his toil—this is the gift of God. For he will not much remember the days of his life because God keeps him occupied with joy in his heart” (Ecclesiastes 5:10, 19-20). Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ! The day of my Dad’s farm auction, his landlady also sold the land he had been renting from her family for over 35 years. When my Dad asked her if she was happy with price the land brought, she said it had brought more money than she would have ever hoped for. She only had one regret about selling the farm that had been in her family for three generations: “I just wish you could’ve gotten some of the benefit,” she told my Dad. “That’s okay,” he ...