May 31, 2022 – Click here to listen
So today I head up to central Georgia to see a small farm that is for sale and then to my youngest son’s home to see him, his wife, and a couple of my grandkids for a few days. And then we go over to Mayo in Jacksonville for my wife to see a doctor concerning her breathing problems. Hopefully, they can make some recommendations and perhaps prescribe some medication that will help her. Neither of us has had Covid and I’m afraid if she gets it, she will have a very difficult time.
I’m told that growing old is not for sissies. Indeed, it is a phase of life that brings trouble. I have several stitches in my neck from my surgery last week and it is painful. I’m looking for a small farm and found a couple that were very remote, (45 minutes one way to a grocery store or medical facilities). My buddy looked at me with a serious look and told me that I’ve already cheated death on at least 12 different occasions of which he was aware and feared that I had about used them all up. He is encouraging me to find a farm that is closer to civilization and I’m sure he has a valid point.
As I grow old, I have begun to accept the fact that I am not invincible and my wife darn sure isn’t. I detest the thought of scaling back my rigorous lifestyle, but then reality sets in and I realize that I am no longer “Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, or able to leap tall buildings in a single bound”. I will never conquer the world even if I work out like Arnold Schwarzenegger, eat kale until my tongue turns green, take 50 pills for every medical condition known to man, fill my face with Botox, and let surgeons slice, dice, and sew on me and tighten my skin until I cannot blink. It is a losing battle and old age and ultimately death will be victorious. So what to do in the meantime?
My dermatologist diagnosed a condition on my legs that occasionally causes lesions to appear when I’m exposed to too much sunlight. It looks bad and I hate to wear shorts or a swimsuit. I asked him if I should just give up on wearing shorts. In the Keys which would be very uncomfortable, and it is unusual to ever even see anybody wearing long pants even in church. He looked at me and told me, “You have to live life Bob”. Hmmm . . . That is what God advises in the Bible. We just need to keep our eyes on the prize which is spending time with Jesus forever.
Live life and go for whatever gusto remains and from where I sit there is still plenty for me to do as I work on my 13th life or is it my 15th. LOL!
2 Cor. 4:16
“Though outwardly we are wearing out, inwardly we are renewed day by day. Our suffering is light and temporary and is producing for us an eternal glory that is greater than anything we can imagine.” God has big plans for you, and you will have a lifetime of everlasting joy when you enter heaven’s gates.”