The Cracked Acorn: Life

Two senior citizens were sitting on a courthouse bench whittling and discussing the merits of being rich. A friend of theirs had most of what money could buy. As they listed what he had, they comically would say,”And I wouldn’t want to live like that!”

Many have the chance to “live like that” today.

If a family has two good incomes it is possible to have an 8,000 sq. ft.home with 4 bedrooms and 4.5 baths and a three car garage and swimming pool. When this happens these families have to have help to keep their lives on an even keel. Pets will require lawn cleanup services. Dogs have to be walked and people to come and groom the animals. If the family is away for a day or more, there is pet sitting.

Executive Cleaning comes twice week to get and return dry-cleaning. A-1 Mowing comes and does the lawn while another company is there to nurture the plants and flowers. A college student can be paid to take the teens to the mall and do errands for shut-in relatives. Groceries are ordered over the internet and delivered to the personal chef. The chef will prepare meals to await the arrival of family members.With more and more Americans eating out, some of the large homes or mini-mansions are opting to have the builder leave out the kitchen. Meals are then bought over the cell phone and eaten in a small dining area. If you can’t organize closets and the like, someone is available to do this while you are at work. Shop4You is a service that will run those gopher errands that you hate and also wait for the repairmen to do plumbing and etc while you are at work.

Last but not least! How about all that paper that seems to be forever attempting to bury you. Magazines are stacked everywhere. Books, paperbacks seem to never get back to the bookcase. You have extracted articles from other sources that you find interesting but have never finished reading them. Catalogs, bulletins, brochures, and paper debris that suggests a purpose-eeks! You can’t find the time to deal with it! Not too worry! While you are away on vacation or at work, a company will send an employee to organize this flotsam and jetsam of paper and put it into its proper place. A printed list with title and location of each offender will be given to you as often as you require it.

I’m satisfied with just a cottage below A little silver and a little gold But in that city where the ransomed will shine I want a gold one that’s silver lined I’ve got a mansion just over the hilltop In that bright land where we’ll never grow old And some day yonder we will never more wander But walk on streets that are purest gold Don’t think me poor or deserted or lonely I’m not discouraged I’m heaven bound I’m just a pilgrim in search of a city I want a mansion, a harp and a crown I’ve got a mansion just over the hilltop In that bright land where we’ll never grow old And some day yonder we will never more wander But walk the streets that are purest gold. (John 14: 1-3)