October 8, 2025 - Good Morning! It’s Wednesday, October 8.
It’s a busy week in Stockholm, Sweden. It’s Nobel Prize week. Each day another winner is announced in one of six categories - Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature, Economics, and Peace. The winners get a medal, a certificate, and a million dollars. It all started in 1901. Alfred Nobel made his fortune making and selling weapons. He invented most of them, including, most famously - dynamite. And then he left most of that fortune to fund these prizes.
Marie Curie was the first female winner, the first person to win twice, and the first to win in two different categories - Chemistry and Physics. Not too shabby. Einstein won for Physics, too. Literature winners include Rudyard Kipling, Ernest Hemingway, and, in 2016, Bob Dylan. Four U.S. presidents have won Peace Prizes - Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Jimmy Carter, and Barack Obama. The prize for peace also went to Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, and Mother Teresa.
A few years before Alfred Nobel’s death, his brother died. Several newspapers erroneously ran an obituary for the wrong brother, the famous one. One of these articles was titled “The Master of Death is Dead”. Nobel was deeply troubled by this and was inspired, through his prizes, to reshape his reputation, his legacy, Each of us has had moments when we’ve considered what we’ll leave behind, when we’ve thought about what our legacy will be. Here’s a few thoughts from the Word about legacy.
I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the light. 3 John 1:4
Blessed are the righteous ones who walk in integrity. Proverbs 20:7
Lay up for yourself treasure in heaven. Matthew 6:20
Meet you back here tomorrow,
David
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