Final World Tour

I’ll be 74 in 10 years. Maybe things will be pretty much as they are now, with a few annoying health issues. But if Paul McCartney Bob Dylan, and The Rolling Stones are still touring at their age, I could do one final world tour. But I’m not famous, and I never recorded any songs. So, maybe I’d better get going and book the stadiums. It might motivate me to start my rock star career. Or maybe I won’t bother 😄.

Anyway, things mightn’t stay the same. They might get worse at a personal level and at a world level. Things certainly seem to be going downhill at a world level lately. But maybe they were never good since paradise. and paradise is where I might be in 10 years. I think of two statements by the Apostle Paul:

Philippians 1:21-24
²¹ For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. ²² If I am to go on living in the body, this will mean fruitful labor for me. Yet what shall I choose? I do not know! ²³ I am torn between the two: I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far; ²⁴ but it is more necessary for you that I remain in the body.

So maybe I’ll depart and be with Christ but who’d look after my blog then? What would become of the world without my blog? 😄

Seriously, I think the best contribution that I can make in the coming years is to pray. That’s something that I should have done more of throughout my life. And I have a lifetime of memories that always act as a trigger towards prayer.

I do worry that things might get worse at times. So, I try to think of that second statement of the Apostle Paul and something that Jesus said on the Sermon on the Mount.

Here’s what Paul said:

Philippians 4:11-13
I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do all this through him who gives me strength.

And here’s what Jesus said:

Matthew 6:24
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.