Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life in the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Keith Simon. Right now we're going through the first book of the Bible,

Genesis.

Gravestones always tell us when a person died.

Sometimes they tell us how a person lived.

Maybe you've seen a gravestone that had the word mom or dad or soldier on it.

That tells us something about the life of the person who's buried there.

Occasionally a gravestone will tell you what a person believed.

Mel Blank was 81 years old when he died.

He was known as the man of a thousand voices because he was the famous voice behind cartoon characters like Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny,

Tweedee-Bird, Yosemite Sam, the list goes on and on.

He was also the voice behind the phrase at the end of every Looney Tune cartoon. It said that's all folks.

Now it turns out that that's all folks is not just a way to end a cartoon but it's also

a perspective on life, because that phrase, that's all folks, was on the

gravestone of Mel Blank. Contrast that to a gravestone of an unknown woman named Margaret. When she died, she was not yet

50 years old and on her gravestone it simply read, waiting. Waiting?

Waiting for what? Well, waiting for the glorious resurrection of her body.

That's all, folks.

Represents a certain approach to life.

But so does waiting.

That's all folks, says says this is your life and therefore you must go for it before your story ends.

You've got to get every bit of happiness every bit of pleasure everything you want out of this life before you die.

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