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Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Lk 12/13-21 |
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always later than we think, Jesus warns us this morning. Even if we are not going to die
tonight, we are going to die. No matter how great our wealth, we cannot take it with us.
Our fame, our influence, our possessions, our accomplishments will soon pass and be
forgotten. We must therefore seize the opportunity to make of our lives what we can.
Before it is too late. The prospect is scary, but it is also reassuring. We still have
time, some time. Not as much as we would like to have, but still enough. What are we going
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Story: We
continue with our vacation stories. Once upon a time there was a daddy who had made a lot
of money in the stock market (he had also made a lot of money in the commodity markets
too). For every dollar he had invested in 1994, he now had five dollars. Starting with a
rather modest amount of money, he had become a millionaire. However, he as not the kind of
person who could make his investments and stick with them because he knew that in the long
run they would continue to grow. Quite the contrary, he was a real investor, that is to
say, he bought and sold stocks almost every day to make money even more rapidly than did
the ordinary investor who left it to his brokers and advisers to watch the daily
opportunities. Our hero earned his living – and it was a good one – in other
areas. However, he became obsessed with the daily fluctuations in the market. He exulted
when his holdings went up, and grew depressed when they went down. He called up the DJA on
his computer several times every day and then explored his portfolio in detail. WELL, he
went on vacation with his family and of course brought his laptop along. It happened to be
one of those times when the DJA rose and fell like the tides. So he spent most of his
daylight hours on his laptop. As a result he wasted his vacation, even though the weather
was beautiful every day, the lake was warm, the winds were light, and everyone else in his
family had a wonderful time.
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