Passing Importance

 The Magi were three fellows come from way East of where Jesus was born.  They each brought him a gift.  They were following a star.  They seemed like such interesting people.  After they left Jesus, we never heard about or from them again.  Why not?  That may be the point as someone said.  Importance is temporary.  You are center stage.  Then you are not.  Someone else comes along who takes on importance.  I was just reading the novel, “The Paris Wife,” about Ernest Hemingway and his first marriage.  When I was a schoolboy, Hemingway was an important author.  He wrote the novel, “The Sun Also Rises.”  I never hear about him now.  Who reads him?  So if you are striving for importance know that it will be temporary if you get it. I try to be loving, to be of service and let it go at that.