Life Lessons
Striking It Rich
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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.