pink bucket
Pink, my last day before marking 83 years and heading into my 84th year, begins pink, a good color. When my grandfather Pop was this age he told me that now he had outlived Uncle Charlie, his next older brother, he was older than any Weller had ever lived. Pop lived to 92 & four months. My father lived to 82 & one month. My goal, set while recuperating from open heart surgery at Cleveland Clinic, January 2011 age 75, is my 85th birthday, which will put me just over the median survival of 9.6 years for AVR+CABG. So, life is pink. Do I have a bucket list? Yes, ships: to watch many more large cargo vessels glide by 7H.
And a friend this week tempted me about owning another telescope, but one better suited to the porch of a 3-room apartment than to the yard of a 13-room house like my last telescope.
Does my bucket list include any more cars? No, my bucket list is for everyone I love to outlive me.
Here's the OT lesson for Sunday. Simple, a fool, I find it quite threatening, see what you think:
Proverbs 1:20-33
Wisdom cries out in the street;
in the squares she raises her voice.
in the squares she raises her voice.
At the busiest corner she cries out;
at the entrance of the city gates she speaks:
at the entrance of the city gates she speaks:
“How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple?
How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing
and fools hate knowledge?
and fools hate knowledge?
Give heed to my reproof;
I will pour out my thoughts to you;
I will make my words known to you.
I will make my words known to you.
Because I have called and you refused,
have stretched out my hand and no one heeded,
have stretched out my hand and no one heeded,
and because you have ignored all my counsel
and would have none of my reproof,
and would have none of my reproof,
I also will laugh at your calamity;
I will mock when panic strikes you,
I will mock when panic strikes you,
when panic strikes you like a storm,
and your calamity comes like a whirlwind,
when distress and anguish come upon you.
and your calamity comes like a whirlwind,
when distress and anguish come upon you.
Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer;
they will seek me diligently, but will not find me.
they will seek me diligently, but will not find me.
Because they hated knowledge
and did not choose the fear of the Lord,
and did not choose the fear of the Lord,
would have none of my counsel,
and despised all my reproof,
and despised all my reproof,
therefore they shall eat the fruit of their way
and be sated with their own devices.
and be sated with their own devices.
For waywardness kills the simple,
and the complacency of fools destroys them;
and the complacency of fools destroys them;
but those who listen to me will be secure
and will live at ease, without dread of disaster."