Saturday and Life

Earlier this week, I had a lot of plans for Saturday: sleeping in, going for a walk, shopping, cleaning, going downtown. I haven’t done any of those things, it turns out. I haven’t even balanced my checkbook or recorded my weekly pay.

Instead, my morning looked like this: woke up an hour later than usual, got ready, went to a funeral, came home and ate.

The funeral was beautiful, a true celebration of a life lived. It was also terrible, in that I cried through most of it as I watched the family members remembering and missing. X was 75. She died of cancer. She had four children, six grandchildren and a loving church family that she just joined 4 years ago, when she became a Christian.

A lot of parents of friends have died recently: my pastor’s dad, his wife’s mom, a friend’s dad, X (a friend’s mom) just this week. It has me thinking about life, about its brevity. It has me realizing my parents, my brother, my friends, everyone will die. I will die.

Personal finance is important. I know that. I intend to keep earning, spending and saving as long as I can. Yet. Money is not what is most important. I will not take it with me, and what will really matter in eternity is not how much money I had but what I did with it.

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