"For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." Man has the ability to store up, save, hoard, ration, hide, preserve and protect what he considers valuable and important. Of course, the more valuable the item in question, the greater the effort invested to secure it from theft, destruction or dissipation. Everyone, both poor or rich, young or old alike, has treasures - things or persons which they consider most valuable. Today's gospel passage highlights this reality - our hearts will be given wholly over to that which we treasure most. Perhaps, today would be a good day to list down the things or persons that are most valuable and most important to us, our treasures. Having listed these down, it is also necessary to consider whether material things have precedence over persons or vice versa in our hierarchy of valued treasures - are persons more important than things, or the reverse? Next, we may also need to consider if persons, the people whom we love, are regarded as mere objects (albeit highly valued) - to be possessed and used. We must always remember that true love "frees" and not seeks to "possess". Finally, we must ask ourselves - how does God and His kingdom fare in my list of values? Are they a central part of my "treasure-trove" or merely peripheral?