Where Your Heart Is

We all have some "favorite things," reminders of places we have been, people who've peppered our life with kindness and love, books we've read and kept, hoping for time to re-read them, family heirlooms. We treasure them and trust that no one will ever take them away from us, or that we will never have to give them up. However, as good as they are, they someday will "go away" "by hook or by crook."  We don't like to think about that.  Yet, as we grow older, we wonder what will happen to our "favorite things".  Who will want them?  What should I do with them?  To whom should I leave them or give them?
Jesus has an answer for us:  "Do not store up for yourselves, treasures on earth, where moth and decay destroy, and thieves break in and steal.  But store up treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor decay destroys nor thieves break in and steal.  For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be." (Mt 6: 19-21).  And do we have to wait till heaven to have our treasure?  Can it not be in our hearts, here and now, in the hearts of the people we love and who love us?  In the heart of God himself?  Is not love the treasure that no one can take from us?
Bro. Rene