Friday, January 3, 2014

          During the Christmas season in 2013 there was not an opportunity to watch or read “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens.  I love most versions, but my favorite is the one that features George C. Scott as Mr. Scrooge.  This story was mentioned in a great article in the December Ensign which stated an important observation from the story. 

“In A Christmas Carol, Jacob Marley is living a nightmare, bound in the chains he ‘forged in life . . . link by link.’ . . . Scrooge [said] that he was always a good man of business to which Marley vehemently replied:  ‘Business!’ cries Marley.  ‘Mankind was my business.  The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence were, all, my business.  The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!”  Mankind is our true business.  The Savior is the light that will motivate us to love our fellowmen as He does.  (See Ensign Dec. 2013 pg 39.)

May we lay up treasures in Heaven--(see Matthew 6:19).