Gone With The Wind

The epic film based on Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone With the Wind opens with these lines:

"There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South. Here in this pretty world, Gallantry took its last bow. . . . Look for it only in the books, for it is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind."

Not only does a way of life disappear but also the dreams that drice the main characters. Throughout the Civil War, Scarlett O'Hara is preoccupied with her love for Ashley Wilkes. But by story's end, she is disillusioned.

Solomon saw the futility of seeking satisfaction in people and things. Despite amassing wealth and knowledge, completing great projects, and marrying many wives, he said, "All is vanity and grasping for the wind" (Eccl. 1:14).

Why does chasing transitory things leaves us unfulfilled? The biblical answer is that we were created to find our ultimate fulfillment in God. Jesus promised, "I have come that they may have life. and that they may have it more abundantly" (John 10:10).

People and things coem and go. But the spiritual satisfaction Christ offers sustains us in this world and wil endure into eternity. --Dennis Fisher

What cmoes from man will never last,

It's here today, tomorrow past;

What comes from God will always be

The same for all eternity! --Spencer

Invest your life in what pays eternal dividends.