QC Family Focus: March 2016

Wisdom & The Chessboard
By March David 2016 W. Deuth, President of Weerts Funeral Home
Serving Eastern Iowa & Western Illinois
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here was a time during junior
high when I played my share of
chess. Several of my friends, I
discovered, were pretty good chess
players, and my intrigue for the
game intensified as I watched them
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maneuver – and out-maneuver – one
another in matches that were often
lengthy and occasionally exhausting.
As I first began to learn the in’s and out’s of the
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game, the objective quickly became clear: protect your
own King while reducing your opponent to
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the Queen and the King. Indeed, one can lose all eight In the end, more often than not – indeed by
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time was the the capability of the Queen. He knew when to use that
fact that the retention of the most powerful piece, the capability for Aging offense and when to and use it for defense…
Queen, was not the determining factor in winning or and he never lost sight of what’s really important in a
losing the match. Conversely, protecting and retaining chess match: Hearing protecting his King. For Loss at the end of the
one of the least powerful pieces, the King, was the contest, it isn’t the player whose Queen is standing that
wins…but the one whose King remains.
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Thus, in the chess match of life, we would all do
well to understand the difference between what SEEMS
important . . . and what really IS important.
For as someone once wisely noted…when the
game is over, the King and the Pawn go back in the
same box.
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