The Good News Blog

by Dr. Harold Sala

But God said to him, “You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’’ – Luke 12:20

One of the illusions that we live with is that there is always plenty of time later on, so we procrastinate, full of good intentions, thinking that we’ll do that later. Take for example the secretary who worked for many years for the Eastman Kodak Company.

She never married. Her nieces and nephews were very special to her. When Dick was struggling to get through college and seminary, she sent checks quite often. He was the son she never had, and when he went overseas as a missionary, her love and respect for him and his lovely wife only increased.

Each year as part of her salary package, she was given stock, and those were the years when the Kodak