Sunday is a good day. I get to teach four different classes and they all are great classes with very teachable people in all of them. I won’t go to sleep tonight before 1:00 am because I am on such an adrenaline rush right now from teaching those classes that I can’t go to sleep. It is rewarding, exciting, fulfilling, challenging, and a great blessing to be able to teach these classes for the Lord and for our church. Next week I am adding another class to my schedule at our daughter church in Tangent, Agape Family Fellowship. I will be teaching my “Leadership I” class on Sunday afternoons at 5:00 pm.
I consider myself to be very blessed to be able to do my favorite activity of teaching the Bible in a setting that is so positive to such teachable and enjoyable people at my age. I am hoping that I can keep my sanity and energy up enough to do this job until the day I die.
I don’t know what my future holds, but I will make adjustments in my life accordingly. I know that my present energy, health, and mental ability are not to be taken for granted and it could all change tomorrow, so I will do all I can for the Lord for as long as I can and thank Him for every day He gives me.
I have goals written out until I am 88 years old, and if I am still around and able to serve after that I will write out another five years worth. I am enjoying life right now, my ministry, my family and my hobbies. I enjoy writing goals for the future and my dreams for what I can do and accomplish. As I have written before, it doesn’t cost anything to dream so I am dreaming big.
Pastor Dee's Blog 
When Billy Graham was 92 years-old, he was struggling with Parkinson’s disease. In January, a month before his 93rd birthday, leaders in Charlotte, North Carolina, invited their favorite son, Billy Graham to a luncheon in his honor.
Billy initially hesitated to accept the invitation because of his struggles with Parkinson’s disease. But the Charlotte leaders said, ‘We don’t expect a major address. Just come and let us honor you.’ So he agreed.
After wonderful things were said about him, Dr. Graham stepped to the podium, looked at the crowd, and said:
“I’m reminded today of Albert Einstein, the great physicist who this month has been honored by Time magazine as the Man of the Century. Einstein was once traveling from Princeton on a train, when the conductor came down the aisle, punching the tickets of every passenger. When he came to Einstein, Einstein reached in his vest pocket. He couldn’t find his ticket, so he reached in his trouser pockets.
It wasn’t there.He looked in his briefcase but couldn’t find it. Then he looked in the seat beside him. He still couldn’t find it.
“The conductor said, “Dr. Einstein, I know who you are. We all know who you are. I’m sure you bought a ticket. Don’t worry about it.” Einstein nodded appreciatively. The conductor continued down the aisle punching tickets. As he was ready to move to the next car,he turned around and saw the great physicist down on his hands and knees looking under his seat for his ticket.
“The conductor rushed back and said, ‘Dr. Einstein, Dr. Einstein, don’t worry, I know who you are; no problem. You don’t need a ticket. I’m sure you bought one.’Einstein looked at him and said, “Young man, I too, know who I am. What I don’t know is where I’m going.”
Having said that Billy Graham continued, “See the suit I’m wearing? It’s a brand new suit. My children, and my grandchildren are telling me I’ve gotten a little slovenly in my old age. I used to be a bit more fastidious. So I went out and bought a new suit for this luncheon and one more occasion. You know what that occasion is? This is the suit in which I’ll be buried. But when you hear I’m dead, I don’t want you to immediately remember the suit I’m wearing. I want you to remember this:
“I not only know who I am. I also know where I’m going.” May your troubles be less, your blessings more, and may nothing but happiness, come through your door. “Life without God is like an unsharpened pencil – it has no point.”
May each of us have lived our lives so that when our ticket is punched we don’t have to worry about where we are going.
I’m not sure this us true but hope it is. Thought of you
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