More than once, I have gone to the grocery store for milk and come home with other items that caught my eye but having forgotten to get the milk I went there to buy. Hence, The List. Since my teens, I have surrounded myself with visual reminders- written ‘to-do’ lists, pictures and paintings of what is most important, ‘gems of wisdom,’ all of which serve to remind me not to return home without what I came for. However, to be effective, the list must contain the essential needs AND, I must check the list to make sure I put all the required items in the basket.
Pres. Spencer W. Kimball taught, “. . . Immortality and Eternal Life constitute the sole purpose of life.”
(Catholic) Bishop J. Sheen noted that: “Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our hands are open; there is nothing on earth that we need, nothing the soul can take with it.”
There is much on earth that we need to sustain us while we are here and much that we can wisely acquire and use to accomplish the Lord’s purposes; but if acquisition becomes an end it itself we will find upon returning to Our Father that we have come home without the milk. May it not be so is my prayer for myself and all of us.
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