Scripture

 Wherever your treasure is, there the desires of your heart will also be.

~Matthew 6:21, NLT

Quote

There is withinh the human heart a desire, a deep fibrous root to possess, always to possess, and then to possess more.

~Chuck Swindoll

Only a very few of my readers will be able to relate to this story that goes back seventy years. When I was a small boy [five or six] we would sit on the bank in front of my grandmothers house waiting on the Peddle Truck which was a store on wheels. Money was good but you didn’t have to have money, they would trade for eggs or chickens. We waited on the bank near the edge of the road with a penny. What on earth could you buy with a penny? Well, in those days they had penny candy and you could get two pieces of bubble gum for a penny. Now they are about to do away with the penny because it cost more to make them than they are worth.

Billy Graham tells the story of the boy who saw a penny in the bottom of a vase so he sticks his hand in the vase to get the penny. Just one problem, the open hand will go places that the clinched fist cannot go. He grabbed the penny in his fist but he could not get his hand out of the vase. He thought about breaking the vase but it wasn’t his and it looked expensive. His father came along and recognized the problem: He said, “Son, relax your hand. Stop making a fist.” The boy refused saying, “If I do, I can’t get my penny.”

I have been told that this is the way natives capture monkey’s in Africa. They cut a whole in a coconut just big enough for a monkey’s hand. They chain the coconut to at tree and put candy inside. The monkeys stick their hands in, grab the candy but can’t get their hand out. They will not release and the hunter walk up and club them to death. It is one thing for a monkey to be so greedy that it allows a stranger to beat him to death but what excuse do humans have for holding on to temporal wealth. It is worthless. It is like the fable of the rich man who brought gold bullion to the pearly gates. The angel opened his brief case and exclaimed, “You brought pavement.”

Extra

Believe it or not, it rained here from 7:00 am until noon yesterday. I tried to do a little yesterday evening and I have never seen this hill top we live on so soft. Water is standing the front ditch and in some low places in the back. I transplanted some flowers yesterday evening and that always stops the rain.

The War Of The Birds. We installed cameras a couple of weeks ago and the birds love them. They keep trying to build a nest on the front prorch camera and June keeps knocking the nest dow. They go at it daily. So far, June is winning. They didn’t get the word: “No one messes with BigMama.” I can tell you now, the birds are going to lose.

I hope you have a great day. Enjoy your Friday, they come only once a week. Thanks for reading the blog.