The Two Tune Motto

Jimmy Buffet has a lot of great music but I find myself caught between two lines in two different songs. One is Trip Around the Sun, and the line is "If there is one thing that I've learned from all this living is It wouldn't change a thing if I let go."  I decided to retire and that song kind of summed it up. The life of the church and the life in the community would just go on. It would be like pulling a stick out of the water, it would not leave a hole. It would not change anything if I retired, let go of the offices I had. And that has been true.

The other line is from the song " I just growing older, I am not growing up." and the line is "I would rather die while I am living, than live while I am dead."  I hope that my family knows that as well. I do not want to live on if I do not know it or cannot participate in life. We are planning to do as much living, loving and traveling and doing as we can and hope we wear out and not rust out.

I guess I got some of that from life, from my mother. She would get on a plane and fly to visit us, and said when her friends worried about air travel,  air crashes, mother said she just told them "What a way to go."

We are just passing through and most of us do not make that big of an impact that it makes a difference if we let go, but we can all enter into living as much and as fully as possible so that we die while living.

Something like the catechism "Man's chief end is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever."