INSURANCE POLICY
During the midst of the Great Depression of the 1930’s, a poverty-burdened older woman approached the front desk of an insurance office in Minneapolis. She wanted to know if she could stop making payments on the yellowed policy clutched in her farm-weathered fingers. The clerk gave it a perfunctory glance, then studied it with intense amazement. “This is quite valuable,” he said. “I would not advise you to stop paying the premiums now, after all these years. Have you talked with your husband about this? “No,” she said. “He has been dead for three years.” “What!” exclaimed the clerk. “But this is a policy on his life – a $300,000 policy. “Soon, the company had paid the benefits and refunded the three years of overpaid premiums. She now began to experience the financial security which she had all the time but had not known about. The Carpenter said that happens when you and I decide to walk into the kingdom. We find…
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