Dead Man's Check

Dead Man's Check This morning in the AJC there was a hilarious story about two free-wheeling retirees who tried to wheel their dead friend into a check-cashing story to cash his $355 Social Security check. The friend had to be present to cash his check and the clerk knew what he looked like since he always used this same establishment to cash his pension! Picture this: two stocking-headed men in their 60's rolling a rigid, pale-faced, stiff corpse down the streets of Manhattan in a red office chair. The corpse is wearing a faded T-shirt, pants only partially pulled up, and Velcro sneakers. When caught in their ruse by paramedics who proclaimed the stiff DOA, the "friends" faked astonishment: "Omg, he's gone?" As luck would have it, a detective spied the unusual antics from a restaurant window and apprehended the petty thieves on a busy Manhattan street, just as they attempted to wheel their cool, dead body into the check-cashing scheme. You gotta' know this made me laugh. Hope it brought some joy to your day. You also gotta' know I'm going to put my spin on it. Picture this: Two free-wheeling friends wheel a cold, lifeless shell into a bar, club, you fill in the blank. The dead man has no say in the matter. He's not even there...at least in spirit. When confronted, the thieves say, "Oh, what? You mean, he's gone?" Many times the enemy sneaks up like a thief in the night. We have died to our old way of life. Yet he tries to resurrect the dead. He wheels us into familiar haunts in full display of a watching world, trying to make us live our pasts. Not gonna' happen! We are dead to that way of life. We are gone from here. In Spirit we have life in Christ. We are dead to our sins and God puts them as far from us as the east is from the west, never the twain shall meet, as they say. Don't listen to the lies whispered in your ear in the dark. Don't be fooled when he tries to dig out your dirty clothes and prop you in the red rolling chair of death. You're outta' here...gone. Your past is stiff, lifeless and irrelevant. You've moved on. No use trying to cash a dead man's check. Check out the entire article: http://ww.ajc.com/news/content/shared-gen/ap/Feature-stories/Dead_Mans_Check.html