Nice!

I sent two of my sons a message on my Blackberry while deer hunting the other afternoon. I simply stated, “Watching four does”. In a few moments I received an e-mail from one that said, “Nice, I’m sitting in an airport in Oklahoma and I just found out my plane is delayed”. In a minute I got a reply from another son that said, “Nice I’m on a conference call with my boss and his boss and a bean counter doing a budget review and I’m stuck in Philadelphia and its freezing cold here”.

Poor babies, I knew they would rather be hunting with me and I just don’t know what possessed me to torment them, but I did. To tell the truth I have been fighting feeling a little guilty about having so much fun in retirement, especially with so many people suffering in the world. I don’t know why I have been so blessed, but I sure appreciate it. I have not always been so fortunate and must admit I have lived through more than my fair share of stormy dark times and I suppose there will be more before I go “toe up”.

Those hard times make me appreciate the good times all the more. I wonder if that is why we have hard times. One thing sure, if we live long enough we will experience both. No matter to me, I have decided that I am going to enjoy my retirement to the hilt while it lasts. Personally I believe God wants us to enjoy life.

I try to help those who are less fortunate at every opportunity and will pray for one and for all, but I am not going to allow the suffering world’s plight to make me blue and depressed. My opinion is that would be exactly what satan would want. When my good fortune changes and I once again take a down turn such as old age creeping in and my health begins to fail, I suppose I will have plenty of time to be blue. At that point I don’t want to rain on anyone’s parade or have anyone crying in their beer, (root beer), over me, because I will have had my good times along with the bad.

I have been hungry and yet I had no money to buy food. I have been tired and yet had no place to sleep. I did not have a car, clothes, or anything and yet my God saw me through it and eventually blessed me with plenty of those things and more. I believe with all of my heart that God will see me through everything that lays ahead, right up until that wonderful day when I join Him in paradise forever where He will shower me with even more blessings that I do not deserve; therefore how could I possibly be inclined to worry.

God wants us to enjoy this life in as much as we can through the tough and the easy. Obey His commands including helping others, enjoy His blessings, and witness to those whom we can and try our best to observe God’s laws at every opportunity, but also go out and have a good time. Now go out there and do it today because you have much for which to be thankful even if you are in the valley, (the peak is right ahead). Keep on smiling and most importantly be happy today and every day that you can!

Matt. 6:34
Therefore do not worry about
tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry
about its own things. Sufficient for
the day is its own trouble.