Here’s some food for thought: What if everything we work for had to be exchanged before we leave this world?
“A man worked hard all his life and became one of the city’s biggest businessmen by age 50. One day, while traveling, he heard a spiritual talk show in which a saint said that no matter how much we earn, we leave the world the same way we enter it—with nothing.
The words troubled him. He wondered if there was any way to take his wealth with him after death. Unable to find an answer, he announced a reward for anyone who could solve this puzzle.
The next day, a man came to him and asked, “When you travel to another country, what do you do with your money?”
“I exchange it for that country’s currency,” the businessman replied.
The man smiled and said, “Life is the same. If you want to take your wealth with you after death, you must exchange it for the currency of the next world.”
“What currency is that?” asked the businessman.
The currency of heaven is VIRTUE. Use your money in such works which give you virtue. This is the only way you can take all your earned money with you even after you die.”
This story reminds me that while we can’t carry our possessions with us (“Todo se queda,” my mother would say), we can carry the impact of how we used them. Every act of generosity, compassion, and service becomes currency that never loses value. Isn’t that cool? Today, I’m thankful for the reminder to invest in what truly lasts.
[Humility, Charity (Generosity), Chastity, Gratitude (or Kindness), Temperance, Patience, and Diligence]
Which virtue do you consider hardest to attain? And what are you thankful for today?
Until next Thursday’s post…si Dios quiere.
“Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.”
-Philippians 4:8
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Uuu nice picture. Good food for thought.