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If you had only 10 minutes to leave your home because your life was in danger… what would you take?
Just ten minutes.
Ten minutes to walk away from the house you worked years to buy…
The furniture you carefully picked…
The photos on the walls…
The projects you spent weekends building…
The possessions that quietly became part of your identity.
Natural disasters remind us how fragile everything really is. Wildfires, tornadoes, floods—sometimes they give little warning. In a single moment, everything material that we spent a lifetime accumulating can disappear.
But in those ten minutes… what would truly matter?
Would it be the expensive things?
Or the irreplaceable things?
The truth is something we often try not to think about: we spend enormous amounts of our time chasing greener grass—careers, accomplishments, money, bigger homes, endless projects. Yet when life strips everything down to its most basic reality, we realize how little of it actually matters.
We come into this world with nothing… and we leave the same way.
The wealthiest person cannot take their money with them. The most powerful cannot carry their titles beyond the grave. And the proud cannot bring their pride into eternity.
As it says in First Epistle to Timothy 6:7:
“For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it.”
Along this journey called life, something will eventually shake us all. Someone we love will face a life-threatening disease. Someone close to us will pass away. Tragedy will touch our lives in one way or another. None of us escape that reality.
Death is not a possibility.
It is a certainty.
So this morning I asked myself a simple question:
What is truly important to me… and what can I do with today?
Because in the end, life is not measured by what we owned, but by how we lived… who we loved… and the memories we created along the way.
So I’ll ask you again:
If you had only 10 minutes… what would you take?
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