KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
Ultimate
I REMEMBER ESPECIALLY one year when, at the invitation of a neighbor, I joined a therapy group at a nearby hospital...
This group, called Make Today Count, consisted of people who were dying, and I accompanied my neighbor to their meetings for a year. Certainly I cannot say that I "enjoyed" the gatherings; that would be the wrong word. Yet the meetings became for me one of the most meaningful events of each month. In contrast to a party, where participants try to impress each other with signs of status and power, in this group no one was trying to impress. Clothes, fashions, apartment furnishings, job titles, new cars -- what do these things mean to people who are preparing to die? More than any other people I had met, the Make Today Count group members concentrated on ultimate issues. (Philip Yancey)
KneEmail: "And He said to the, 'Take heed and beware of covetousness, for one's life does not consist in the abundance of things he possesses" ( Luke 12:15).