While I'm Thinking About It

The "Last" Ride Posted on WordPress, April 2, 2016 by Wayne C. Wells A retired truck driver/rodeo cowboy spent 18 years preparing for his funeral. Sounds a bit odd, wouldn't you say? The story goes that after his retirement, he began riding a motorcycle, trying to recapture the excitement of the rodeo. He liked it so much that he planned, negotiated, and accomplished a funeral complete with: his embalmed body, on his '67 Harley, in a custom, see thru plexiglass casket, placed inside a custom, concrete vault, in a three plot burial site. Billie Standley obviously wanted to impress his friends on his "last ride" to the cemetery. I wonder if he was equally concerned with pleasing the Creator of the Universe in the last few years of his life. How easily we are distracted by our own goals when we should be focusing on God's wants and purposes. It looks really foolish when I see this kind of distraction driving someone else's life. The nagging question I need to constantly answer is: What does it look like when I d