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37. Let's Celebrate Life Every Day
The following is a continued partial text of this
author's keynote address at the Christian Homes
banquet in 1993.
Yes, there is a great debate in the land. Some years
ago, I spoke to a "pro-life" women's group on one
occasion. To get their attention right at the beginning,
I told them I was "pro-choice." They were, at the very
least, mildly upset until I proclaimed, "I'm for letting
the baby decide!"
Alas, children enter our home and make so much
racket for 20 years we can hardly stand it. Then they
depart leaving the house so silent we think we will go
mad. And so, we celebrate life and look at our own son
and daughter. They have completed the First Quarter
of the Human Race. And at this point, they are ahead!
But it's an awfully long journey through Eternity. We
want them to make it as sure as they can.
We want them to remember this -- there is a God,
and man is His child. We will all die some day,
because our earthly mother and father were human.
I helped preach two funerals in the past three months.
We will live forevermore some day, because our Father
in Heaven is Eternal. That's the "Good News" we want
to pass on to them.
Our son, the family practice physician and also
Biochemistry graduate from Harding University, wrote
the following, in part, on his medical school application:
... My goal is to help people gain mobility, battle
against needless suffering, and avoid premature
death. My life's mission is to pay back, through
a life of medical service and research, that gift
that was given to me those many years ago....
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