I was talking to a family member, a cop, over dinner last week about Pablo Escobar. He recounted to me the manner in which Escobar ran his drug cartel. he made the remark that he was brilliant in his management of a crime syndicate.

My reply was “How brilliant can you be if you are in hell right now?” All the money in the world can’t buy you out of separation from God and his goodness.

Give me poverty over the temporary pleasures of wealth. I don’t need eternal trouble!

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