You know, if the stakes weren’t so high, Life would be just a great game to play. Kinda like an evening out with the boys playing Poker.
We all have our hands to play and we’re betting that we’re going to be the one that wins the jackpot. We work our hands as best we can, and if we don’t win, oh well, there’s always another hand to play.
But Life isn’t that way. This is the only hand you get, and you’re not going to bluff your way through this one. You either win or lose. That’s it.
Unlike poker, you choose your cards. You can pick any hand you’d like – there’s one for every different belief that’s out there. Many feel that it doesn’t really matter that much which hand you pick, as long as you pick something. We’re all in the game together, so nobody really loses – or is it that nobody really wins? Just play the odds and have fun. No big deal which hand you choose.
Like I said, if the stakes weren’t so high, it would all be just a great game. But the stakes don’t get any higher. There’s only one winning hand. You either win it all or lose it all, and there’s no coming back tomorrow night to try your luck again. Better make sure that the hand you pick is the right one.
Unfortunately, everybody thinks that their cards will win and they play them for all they’re worth. Looks good enough to them, so they should probably be OK. Maybe we should take some time, however, and take a good, long look at the cards we’re holding and see if they’re the ones that the Rule Book says will win.
If we don’t, then we’re gambling our eternal souls on chance.
