T-Shirt Ordered

I saw a t-shirt advertised on social media that read, “Never underestimate an old man who still travels in his eighties.”  In spite of the fact that I don’t wear t-shirts, I was attracted to this one.  I’ve had a little medical set-back, but I’m not through traveling.  I still have a monthly teaching commitment with the Valley Baptist Missions Education Center in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas (550 miles from my home in Fort Worth).  We were booked for a vacation-like riverboat cruise on the Mississippi River when the medical issues hit, and we plan to take that cruise eventually.  I’ve traveled and ministered in all fifty states, every Canadian Province and in fifty-nine countries of this world, but I still have two additional countries on my bucket list.  A few years ago, a colleague asked me if I would take his place and go to a West African country to speak to missionaries.  I quickly replied that I would be glad to go.  He said I answered too quick, but I reminded him that I answered that question when I was seventeen years old when I told God I would go an where.  We were singing a song in those teen-age years that was based on Scripture(Matthew 16:24; 1 Peter 2:21), “Follow, follow, I would follow Jesus, anywhere, everywhere, I would follow on.”   Lest I travel alone, the solo sung at our wedding included a word change.  With apologies to hymn writer, B.B. McKinney, , we sang, “Wherever He leads we’ll go.”  So, at age eighty-four, I ordered the t-shirt.