Life Lessons: Striking It Rich
Have you ever fantasized about finding a treasure?
I had two boyhood friends who lived across the street from a tavern. There was a ravine not far from their house where the drunks would sleep it off. One day we were walking up the ravine when we spotted a shiny coin. All three of us dropped to the ground and began digging up a treasure of nickels, dimes and quarters that had fallen out of the drunks' pockets.
We would go back to that ravine many times hoping for a similar strike of wealth. It never happened again.
How much of today are you wasting trying to recreate the past? Solomon wrote, "To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven" (Ecclesiastes 3:1). Don't waste today trying to recreate the good old days. You can spend the rest of your life looking down at the ground for nickels and dimes and miss a hundred priceless moments.
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Gary Petty
Gary Petty is a 1978 graduate of Ambassador College with a BS in mass communications. He worked for six years in radio in Pennsylvania and Texas. He was ordained a minister in 1984 and has served congregations in Longview and Houston Texas; Rockford, Illinois; Janesville and Beloit, Wisconsin; and San Antonio, Austin and Waco, Texas. He presently pastors United Church of God congregations in Nashville, Murfreesboro and Jackson, Tennessee.
Gary says he's "excited to be a part of preaching the good news of God's Kingdom over the airwaves," and "trusts the material presented will make a helpful difference in people's lives, bringing them closer to a relationship with their heavenly Father."
