Will you be around?

rudel (12)in #story • 7 years ago

"Settle all accounts today; you can’t bank on tomorrow."

"The present only is our own, Live and toil with a will; Do not wait until tomorrow, for life’s clock may then be still. ”

By: McCartney

A Life reflection Short Story

I read the following accounts in a medical magazine: When the physical examination of a 78-year-old man had been completed, the doctor recommended that he come back in 6 months for another check-up,. At this suggestion the aged patient shook his head and said,”Doctor, I don’t think I’ll be atound then.”

”Nonesense!” replied the physician with a reassuring smile,”You’ll be around for years yet.”
The elderly man gave him an odd look, then explained, ”I mean that I’ll be in Florida. I go there every January.”

This story may cause us to smile, but the question it raises is very sobering.

Will you and I be around tomorrow, next month, next year?

In my conclusion

It surely is sensible to make plans for the future, but we must always do so with an awareness of life’s uncertainty.

As James reminded us in the Bible reading today, Life is a “a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away”. Because of this we ought to say, ”If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.”