This write-up was originally titled: End of the Road: It's Time to Take Stock! and was published in the November-December, 1999 edition of Foundation Satellite magazine.

There is Time For Everything
Everything in life begins and ends somewhere. The wisest man that ever lived on the face of the earth rightly observed and declared: "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven..." (Ecclesiastes 3:1-22). From the first day of January to the 31st day of December there is always a celebration to mark the ending and the beginning of a new year. Most people just see themselves at the end of every year unprepared, others buy new things to show that the year was very good to them, and that makes for a warm celebration. Whether good or bad, there is the hype about accountability. That's the word that makes vegetables out of real men. Sure, stock must be taken. We must give account: profit or loss?
(Copyright: Foundation Satellite, 1999)