August 26, 2014

Numbered Days

Yesterday Bill took the first of his 23 scheduled radiation treatments. The treatment itself takes only a couple of minutes, but because of a glitch in the computer system he had time to visit with fellow patients in the waiting room. One 92 year-old gent, who was there for his final treatment, was a little impatient that he had to wait an additional 20 minutes for the computer to get back in sync. The old-timer, a mountain rancher, was weathered, worn and riddled with cancer. One might think that this man needed only one more clean shirt; however, I had to laugh when I learned that just last week he bought himself a new horse. From the perspective of King Solomon, “So I saw that there is nothing better for a man than to enjoy his work, because that is his lot. For who can bring him to see what will happen after him” (Ecc 3:22 NIV)?

1 comment:

Steve Corey said...

Gail;

-----I read a news story the other day about a man in New Jersey having been employed for the last seventy-three years with the same company. The company sold and installed light fixtures. His workspace was above a showroom of unusual and unique lighting equipment which had been fashioned by him out of the more interesting fixtures removed from customers’ locations. At one-hundred-one, he still enjoyed his work of creativity.
-----Ecclesiastes helps us understand that God gives us life and work, both to be enjoyed. Maybe to some, the concept of enjoying work is foreign. But when enjoying it is learned and done, life is good and the way God meant it to be. There’s not much reason, then, to stop.
-----God has simplified the matters of eternal life as well. “Then they said to him, ‘What must we do, to be doing the works of God?’ Jesus answered them, ‘This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.’” (John 6:28-29)

Love you all,
Steve Corey