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I can't tell you how sick I am of hearing about Anna Nicole on the news. All over the world, good people are accomplishing great things that are going completely unreported. But this seemingly immoral, not-exactly-a-rocket-scientist dies, leaving an inadequate will, and we are bombarded with it day and night. It's a tragic story, not so much because she's dead (although I feel for her parents), but because she left a 5 month old baby that will forever be a lightening rod for trouble because of some ridiculous sum of money she may or may not inherit. Apparently, she'll receive a minimum of $88 million; but this will not be good enough for her so-called advocates, who will spend millions trying to get even MORE millions. This got me thinking about money. Okay, this and my children constantly saying that if they had a million dollars, they would stock up on even MORE Legos. Apparently, a depth of 3 inches fairly densely heaped across a rather large bedroom's floor isn't good enough. But I digress. Judging by most of Hollywood, money doesn't buy happiness. People just develop different problems than the simple ones that trouble the rest of us. (Simple ones like feeding our families, keeping roof over our heads, keeping the family car rolling a couple more years, etc., etc.) I mean, Anna Nicole was so happy that she had to stay drugged up all the time just to forget about it. Do I even need to mention Britney Spears and Paris Hilten? Clearly, money cannot buy you brains. Or morals. Or self-worth. Otherwise, Hollywood's plastic surgeons wouldn't stay so busy and Michael Jackson wouldn't look like a walking-talking freak show. In a perfect world, where I would be a judge in the case of Anna Nicole's baby, I would rule that she should go live with some nice, normal Christian homeschooling family and the money would go to charity, where it could do some good instead of ruining yet another life. Let the child have some positive role models in some parents who work out their financial future with Dave Ramsey and the skin of their teeth, but who love each other madly; let her have some siblings to pick at, a big hairy dog to feed, some clothes that someone had to make instead of buy, some Saxon Math and good Sonlight books, and a little garden plot to grow beans and sunflowers in, and her future will be bright indeed. Maybe mankind was meant to have to struggle a little in life to gain our self-worth and subsequent happiness, inevitably through accomplishment. And maybe that is why the bible says: "And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God." --Matt 19:24
My question for you today is: Which charity or cause should A.N.'s money ($88 million, I think) be given to and why? |
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