Psalm 49 - Let them Boast. Let Them Parade

Sunday's sermon will be based in Psalm 49 (with words from Luke 12: 13 - 21 and Ecclesiastes 2: 18 - 23 for additional goodness).  Here is the image I made for the powerpoint slides and a poem I wrote.

(click the image to see it full sized.  Thank you.)

Let Them Boast. Let Them Parade

Oh, how we respect and honor them,

secretly envy and even worship them:

the rich and the powerful,

living in gilded mansions

and self assured security

while we painfully save against rainy days

and the escalating cost of college tuition,

and maybe we fear them, too,

fear the influence and power they wield,
casually buying and selling our lives.

But why? Why should I envy or fear them?
Why give them so much?

Brother, I tell you,

no one can buy back his soul.

In not so many years they’ll trade

that gilded mansion in the here and now

for a mansion of earth in the abyss of forever and on.

Let them boast. Let them parade.

It’s all the same in the end.