I’m sure we all felt bad over the tragic death of Christina Onassis at the age of 38. Many of her problems stemmed from the poverty she experienced at home as she was growing up. As her stepsister Henrietta Gelber commented:

“She lacked a sense of achievement, what she was striving for was just to be a normal human being with normal family relationships, which was virtually impossible in her situation. She had houses all over the world, but she never really had a home.”

-People Magazine, Dec. 5, 1988



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A couple in Milwaukee asked an appraiser to look at a painting in their home.
While there he saw another, which they thought to be a copy or reproduction of
a work by Van Gogh. It turned out to be an original Van Gogh — Still Life with
Flowers painted in 1886! It later sold at auction for $1,400,000. What is there
in your home that has greater value than you realize? Is it love, or trust or
peace? Is it security or happiness? Many of us live with things of far greater
value than a Van Gogh. The house we live in may not be worth a lot, but the
home we have there may be worth more than anyone can even count.


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