Perspective Lyrics - Singles - Razorigami

"I suppose in affluent societies such as we live in, 

and all of the things God's blessed us with, 

it's easy to be a collector. I've always had 

a lot of treasure hunter in me, it's in my blood, 

and I suspect that many of you have a little 

bit of treasure hunter in you as well. Well, forty 

years ago, my father, two brothers and I used to 

spend a great deal of time digging in old 

dumps looking for antique bottles. And if you 

had asked me at that time what my treasure 

was or where it was, I would've told you it was 

an old bottle. Even though we never found 

anything extremely valuable, it was something 

that we did as a family. Now forty years later, 

looking back, my dad is gone, my brothers 

have their own lives to live, the dumps are 

pretty much gone - either off limits or all dug, 

and I look back and I treasure the memory of 

those times together. You see, to me, God has 

shown me something different about that situation 

that I never realized existed at the time! The real 

value in all of that was what I was doing with 

my family, it wasn't even in the artifacts. And so 

God has shown me that loved ones, and memories, 

and things that we do, and experiences that He 

gives us are indeed more valuable than most of 

the stuff we tend to collect. "