Today is Tuesday, May 9th, 2023. Welcome to the Daily Article podcast. Today's article is written by

Denison Forum co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison, and narrated by Chris Elkins. Warren Buffett is

chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, which owns dozens of companies.

He has been extremely benevolent over the years, donating hundreds of millions of dollars to charitable causes.

Forbes estimates his net worth at $114 billion.

My net worth is several zeros less. Who then am I to disagree with the famed

Oracle of Omaha when he gives advice? The 92-year-old was asked at Berkshire Hathaway's recent

annual stockholder meeting how to avoid mistakes in business and in life. His response? You should write your obituary and then try to figure out how to live up to it.

It's not that complicated.

With all due respect to Mr. Buffett, it is complicated.

Or at least it should be.

We can write our obituary without God's help and, depending on what we choose to write, figure out how to live up to it.

Or, we can seek God's best for our lives, knowing that we must then have his power if we are

to fulfill his purpose.

There is an eternally significant chasm between these two options.

Western secularism has been trying for generations to follow

the path of self-reliance, as American playwright Tennessee Williams observed, quote,

snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.

End quote. How is our magic trick working for us?

A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association reports that mental health-related

visits to emergency rooms by children, teenagers, and young adults have risen sharply in recent years.

The worst escalation was for suicide-related

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