I go for long walks in the woods a lot, and I ask myself if I’m handling all this success the way it ought to be handled.  I don’t know why it happened to me.  God has a purpose for it.  We are able to contribute an awful lot of money to His work, and maybe that’s why.  But I firmly believe it will be over one of these days – five years from now, ten years from now.  The books will stop selling for whatever reason.  All this is temporary.

One of my best friends in college died when he was twenty-five, just a few years after we had finished Mississippi State University.  I was in law school, and he called me one day and wanted to get together.  So we had lunch, and he told me that he had terminal cancer.

I couldn’t believe it.  I asked him, “What do you do when you realize that you are about to die?”

He said, “It’s real simple.  You get things right with God, and you spend as much time with those you love as you can.  Then you settle up with everybody else.”

That left an impression on me.

John Grisham, from an interview with Christianity Today

And remember, it’s all about THE relationship.