Squabbling over money leads to fierce and friendless fights. Because the greedy are always seeking more, they pound the life out of relationships. A miserly attitude that prevents generosity and kindness drains the life-blood out of an alliance.
Given these two contrasts, I began to wonder what hell would be like for these character types. Here’s what I imagined:
Descending into hell we find a boxing ring made extra small to insure constant battle. In the ring are two tanker-like bruisers pounding each other with piteous ferocity.
One fighter eyes blackened, ears thickened into cauliflowers has Miser tattooed on his chest. He fights in a plodding, machine-like style grinding away at his opponent whose nose and mouth drip copiously with blood that pours down her face riddled with violet scars. With Greed branded on her right breast and Bleed on the other, she dances and bangs combinations into Misers bruised and battered face.
The monsters at ringside sit on spiked chairs and clamor for more blood. The bell rings and the fighters return to their corner. Greed spits blood into a bucket and sneers across to Miser who gestures defiantly spewing expletives.
An impish figure—short, round, balding with a broad gnomic face and wearing a blooded referee uniform comes over. He points down a huge corridor. As far as the eye can see cramped boxing rings crowd the hall, each with accursed fighters flailing away at each other.
The referee explains in a granular, rumbling voice that he assures continuous fighting except for a one-minute rest between rounds to allow the fighters to feel the lacerations of their pain.
Thus the greedy and the miserly suffer the anguish of their sins forever.
This blog has been formulated to offer encouragement, optimism and hope. How does this entry fit with these goals? Well…perhaps the message will encourage all of us to be more generous to those in need: to not continue to want more and more and to be less stingy with our resources, to be benevolent, charitable, unselfish and to help those less fortunate.
This blog has been formulated to offer encouragement, optimism and hope. How does this entry fit with these goals? Well…perhaps the message will encourage all of us to be more generous to those in need: to not continue to want more and more and to be less stingy with our resources, to be benevolent, charitable, unselfish and to help those less fortunate.