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Cemeteries Can't Bury Everything!

Ken Davis, Lighten Up!, Great Stories From One of America's Favorite Storytellers, Zondervan Publishing House, 2000, pp. 37, 38.  SoAmazing.com

Category: Inspirational
ISBN: 0310227577
Keywords: group, businessmen, catastrophe, economy, wealth, treasures, financial collapse, cemetery, Jesus Christ, Zondervan Publishing House, Ken Davis, Davis

"I once did the following exercise with a group of businessmen. I had them write, on five slips of paper, the five most important things in their lives. They folded the slips and held them tightly. Then I informed them a financial catastrophe had destroyed the economy; everyone's wealth was gone. I circled the room with a wastebasket and made them crumple and discard the treasures that were vulnerable to financial collapse. hearing his voice.

I repeated this procedure three times, adding factors such as illness, fire, or the death of a loved one into the mix. I was fascinated to see how tightly they clung to some very temporal items. Finally, many of them had only one item left. I insisted that if any catastrophe of any kind could take it from them, they had to relinquish it. What had started out as a lighthearted exercise became a sobering confrontation with matters of who we are and what it is that makes life worth living. . . .

Take a walk in your local cemetery. Its etched stones bear witness to forgotten names--faces that have flickered out in time's expanse. But those engraved, fading epitaphs are not the final word, and therein lies humankind's one substantial hope. Those who have trusted Jesus Christ keep their eyes on the horizon. They look to a world were nothing--let's say the word again: NOTHING--can be taken away."

SoAmazing Review: Lighten Up! is more than entertainment. Davis is on a serious mission, he wants to change your life.

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