I TALKED TO SOME ELDERLY PEOPLE ABOUT SIGNIFICANCE

I keep looking around to spot the "elderly" that news bites talk about.  Whoever they are, they are much older than I.

But that reference did bring a chuckle tonight to a room full of "elderly" at an RV resort Bible study. We were talking about how significant the remainder of our short life can still be.  "Finishing well" we call it.  Take a moment to reflect. 

Some of us at the latter stages have been successful.  That's where our inner drive is rewarded with admiration and rewards of all sorts.  But you can't take success into Heaven.  No yardstick for "success" beyond the "gates".  But significance rolls on generation after generation. And the markers are found when the "roll is called up yonder" and those we've lead to saving faith, caused to grow, or who followed our Walk as a model will welcome us Home or will greet us upon their arrival behind us.

 

 

 

But you were wondering, weren't you?  About the status of my new parallel Walk with God and with cancer.  So, we're still talking about finishing well.  Thanks for asking.  We're back to standard treatment protocols for stage four prostate cancer.  The Lord didn't give us the shortcut that was teasing us, so now its hormone treatments and an optimistic Urologist. 

Let's tie it all together.  I'm on call.  I'm on a short leg of the Journey. I'm aiming for significance in how I affect my wife, my friends, and I prize my primary mission, building a significent legacy through my grandchildren that will extend generation after generations.

THREE GENERATIONS ON A CATTLE DRIVE.
SEE ANYTHING SIGNIFICANT IN THAT?