I recently sent a letter to my boss saying something along the lines of "well, I'm of kind of feeling that it's the end of the third quarter, I've run up the score pretty well and it might be time for me to move to the sidelines and allow another person to quarter-back the team - when you need the big '3rd and long' look over and put me in." (Sort of a cute way of saying the big "R" word - Donchaknow!) You need to know that I don't believe that retirement (the big "R" word) is biblical. After all, wasn't Caleb out capturing turf after running off the opposition when he was in his 80s?? Didn't Abraham concieve in his 90's?? (I suppose I might want to clarify that I'm not thinking that!!!) I looked at my recent (???) history and wasn't totally surprised to note that if you add up 4 years in the Coast Guard, 31 years with IBM, and 15 years at Cedarville, that's 1/2 of a century of "pedal to the metal, high energy, take no prisoners activity." God has truly blessed my wife Sheron and I with three great children and 5 wonderful grand-children (to date) and has allowed us to enjoy at blessed sojourn here in Cedarville. Surely the un-named chief servant of Abraham had it right when he prayed "O Lord, (my God) give me success today and show kindness to my master Abraham (my wife and I.) See I am "hanging out at the well" and multitudes of possibilities will pass by. May it be that I'll say (as he did) "let down your jar that I may drink" (and review the many options) and have the ones that best fit your plan for the 4th quarter be apparent. Then perhaps I can also bow down and say "Praise be to the Lord of my master Abraham, (my God)who has not abandoned his kindness and faithfulness and has led and blessed me on this journey."
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