After the game is over...
I was driving to a New Year's Eve celebration last week...a low key affair, just a small get together with family members. While channel surfing for some nice music, I stopped momentarily on a church service being broadcast...I remember these New Year's Eve services being called Watch Night Services, and I have never been to one in my life. The pastor was talking about how much fun we can have playing Monopoly...hours of fun. I enjoy Monopoly, so the topic caught my interest enough to leave the radio dial alone. I was curious where this discussion of Monopoly was headed as the centerpiece of a New Year's Eve sermon. I confess that the ending caught me by surprise! Monopoly isn't everyone's favorite game, in part because of the competition...in part because it's one of those games that usually takes hours to play. I can remember many times when we didn't really finish at all...we got tired after a while and just quit. But there were...