Found Treasure

I llove this story from the Associated Press:

WASHINGTON – The businessman arrived at the Treasury Department carrying a suitcase stuffed with about $5.2 million. The bills were decomposing, nearly unrecognizable, and he asked to swap them for a cashier’s check. He said the money came from Mexico.

Money like this normally arrives in an armored truck or insured shipping container after a bank burns or a vault floods. It doesn’t just show up at the visitor’s entrance on a Tuesday morning. For the past few years, authorities say, [a man] and his family have popped in and out of U.S. banks, looking to change about $20 million in buried treasure for clean cash. The money is always the same — decaying $100 bills from the 1970s and 1980s. It’s the story that keeps changing:

_It was an inheritance, or somebody dug up a tree and there it was, or it was found in a suitcase buried in an alfalfa field, or a relative found a treasure map.

I guess every kid I know has dreamed of finding a treasure map, or digging a hole in the ground and hitting the proverbial “lock box” of treasure left from long ago. I don’t know anyone who ever has actually found a treasure of gold, silver, precious stones and the like.

I do know that the Scripture tells us that the real treasure is in Heaven. The issue is getting there and getting it. Actually I know how to do both. And, there is plenty of treasure to go around. I have the map, I know where the “X” is. And, I am ready to share the wealth. . .

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