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There is an old song that says, "Whatever you can do, I can do better."  This describes the height of ego; it's also not true.    I can plow corn with a one-line mule and a double-shovel, but I know as much about computers as a hog does about the plan of salvation.

Every day we learn of people who have died. Some die in their old age, some in their youth. Regardless of how long we live, or the reason for dying, our life is brief at its longest. Moses wrote that our life is “soon cut off” (Ps. 90:10).

My oldest grandson is a high school senior this year: a time for thinking about his career choice – an important decision. I didn’t actually choose my career until I was twenty, but I had made choices supporting that pathway years beforehand.  

 On the Friday that was the Friday of my father’s funeral; I arrived early and sat in a chair in the foyer of Greenwell-Houghlin Funeral Home in Taylorsville, the town where I spent most of my growing-up years.