For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.
(1 Corinthians 15.25
NRSV)
In one classic series, the rich uncle's billions nearly have driven him crazy. Everybody is asking him for money, and Scrooge is gulping nerve medicine by the bottle. In an attempt to save his sanity, Scrooge parachutes with Donald and the nephews into a remote, agrarian village named Trala-La, a parody of Shagri-La, the Utopia in James Hilton's novel, "Lost Horizon."
But Scrooge makes the mistake of carelessly discarding a nerve-medicine bottle cap, and the natives begin using it as money. They fight over the cap, and disrupt their idyllic existence. Scrooge brought plenty of medicine to Trala-La and because he has lots of bottle caps again finds himself the richest person around. He decides to teach the natives a lesson by having a plane rain bottle caps on the village to devalue the currency. The caps soon threaten to bury the village and fill its lake. Scrooge turns off the cap shower, and everybody learns that money can be the root of all evil.
The final scene shows the three nephews asking Scrooge to pay them for accompanying him on the trip. Scrooge soon is gulping nerve medicine again. He can run but he cannot hide. Everybody wants money from him.
All the things of life must be kept in perspective and God must reign.
God of love, reign in my heart. Amen.