THE MAGIC BANK ACCOUNT

I love it when our Betty Brewer’s Angels volunteers send me inspirational articles they have found.  Thank you to volunteer Peggy Shields who sent this one to me.  The story is told that the author is not known and that it was found in the billfold of Coach Paul Bear Bryant, Alabama, after he died in 1982.

The Magic Bank Account

Imagine that you had won the following *PRIZE* in a contest: Each morning your bank would deposit $86,400 in your private account for your use.  However, this prize has rules:

The set of rules: 

    1. Everything that you didn't spend during            

        each day would be taken away from you.

   2. You may not simply transfer money into

        some other account.

  

   3. You may only spend it.

   4. Each morning upon awakening, the bank opens your account with

       another $86,400 for that day.

    5. The bank can end the game without warning; at any time it can say,

         “Game Over!". It can close the account and you will not receive a new   

         one. 

What would you personally do?

You would buy anything and everything you wanted right? Not only for yourself, but for all the people you love and care for. Even for people you don't know, because you couldn't possibly spend it all on yourself, right?

You would try to spend every penny, and use it all, because you knew it would be replenished in the morning, right? 

ACTUALLY, This GAME is REAL ...

Shocked ??? YES!

Each of us is already a winner of this *PRIZE*. We just can't seem to see it.

The PRIZE is *TIME*  

 

  1. Each morning we awaken to receive 86,400 seconds

as a gift of life.

   2. And when we go to sleep at night, any remaining time is Not credited to

      us.

 3. What we haven't used up that day is forever lost.

 4. Yesterday is forever gone.

  5. Each morning the account is refilled, but the bank can dissolve your

      account at any time WITHOUT WARNING... 

SO, what will YOU do with your 86,400 seconds?

Those seconds are worth so much more than the same amount in dollars.  Think about it and remember to enjoy every second of your life, because time races by so much quicker than you think.

So take care of yourself, be happy, love deeply and enjoy life!

On June 18^th, we honored our volunteers at our annual Volunteer Appreciation Luncheon.  It is my favorite event of the year because we are able to honor our special volunteers who spend part of their magic bank account with the resident they have picked to have a one-on-one visit with each week.

 (From visiting every week such special friendships develop between the volunteer and the resident that we only have women volunteer with women and men with men.)     

I encourage you to spend some of your special bank account volunteering, with us or any other organization. How are you spending your 86,400 seconds today? 

If interested in becoming a Betty Brewer’s Angels volunteer, please contact me either by email www.bettybrewersangels@wowway.com or call me 614-309-4677. I would love to answer your questions!