Here’s a joke someone told me once: A Christian died and stood at the entrance of heaven. An angel said to him, "You didn't hear? You are allowed to go back and bring one thing from earth to have for eternity." The person was whisked back to his earthly home and, thinking long and hard, finally settled on exchanging his life savings for a block of gold. He put the gold in a suitcase and went back to heaven. The angel was curious, "What did you decide to bring?" The man opened his suitcase and showed the angel his precious and heavy block of gold, which had not been easy to earn. The angel got a quizzical look, stepped back, looked the man in the eye, and said, “You brought pavement?“