The most important things

I talked to an audience of adults about valuing the most important things in life.

I asked the question, “When you turn 95 and look back over previous decades, what accomplishments will be most important to you? The money you earned, the house you bought, the title you gained, or the friends you made, the family you prospered, and the love you shared?”

After the gathering, a stately and elderly gentlemen with all the trappings of worldly success and executive status cornered me at my car in the parking lot. He was crying. He told me, “You don’t know how lucky you are to have the most important things in life figured out at an early age.” He said no more, but reading between the lines, I felt he had learned the hard way over his career to put love for others above love for his work.

We all need priority checks on occasion. We need to ask ourselves, "What is most important to me, and what should be most important to me?" Is it to earn that higher wage, get that promotion, and beat out my competitor? Or is it to help my friends, support my children, comfort my spouse, grow spiritually with God, and love more?

The things of the world come and go, but the love of God we live and share stay with us forever.

What’s your choice?