But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’ (From Luke 12:13-21 ) Robert Frost’s poem, The Road Not Taken , is among my favorite of his. In the poem a traveler comes to diverging roads and needs to decide which to take. One road doesn’t look as though it’s been used as much while the other looks well used, so the traveler ponders, which shall I take? It’s difficult for the traveler to make a decision not knowing where each path leads. The traveler makes a choice recognizing that in the future the choice may have been wrong, but it’s impossible to go back and change the choice. This is he sense of the parable of the Rich Fool, which choice does one make? Here’s a rich land owner with an abundance of whatever crop and so a choice must be made. The choice made is to build a larger barn to store more crops. Celebrate! Eat, drink, and be merry! This choice is made based on greed ...