Please Don't Tell Me How The Story Ends

This could be our last good night together
We may never pass this way again
Just let me enjoy 'till it's over or forever
Please don't tell me how the story ends.

Though I am ashamed to admit, I sometimes watch the soap opera General Hospital. Soap operas really know how to reel you in by slow moving plots and cliff hangers with each episode. Soaps have been on for many years and characters come and go. You never really know how the story will end.

However, with sitcoms today, the story is very predictable. A situation occurs, there is a plot and a climax, then the show ends either with the problem solved or with comic relief. Either way, you pretty much know how the story will end.

Life is more like a soap opera than a sitcom. Characters come in and out of our lives every day. Some stay and some just pass through. Our issues and problems take more than 30 minutes to solve, and each day, month, and year are a cliff hanger. We don't know how our story will end.

"I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then." Jimmy Buffett

Trials and tribulation build character. Without the bad in our lives, we would not fully appreciate the good. We all have dreams. Some of them will come true and some wont, but we must keep believing. If my life was predictable, it would be boring. For me, each day is an adventure that ends with a cliff hanger. I don't want to know how my story ends.

Never's just the echo of forever
Lonesome as the love that might have been
Just let me go on loving and believing 'till it's over
Please don't tell me how the story end.

Glad that my life is not filmed before a live studio audience is ... on this cowboys mind.



(Please Don't Tell Me How The Story Ends: Ronnie Milsap)

Toes

I got my toes in the water,
Ass in the sand,
Not a worry in the world,
A cold beer in my hand,
Life is good today.
Life is good today.

I just love that song. When I hear it, I think about those Corona beer commercials where the couple are sitting on the white sandy beach drinking a cold beer and watching the waves roll in. The sky is clear and water is so blue that you cant tell where it ends and the sky begins.

The other day my daughter asked me, "Dad, what does Heaven look like?" I had to think about it for a while, but then said, "Think of the most beautiful place you have ever seen on earth. If God created that for all of us to enjoy, even the non believers, you know He saved the best for Heaven."

Now I realize that is not a theological answer, but she understood it. Funny thing is, I have wondered the same thing myself, and that is the answer that I came up with. Therefore, it works for me too.

Without running the risk of sounding irreverent or being accused of blasphemy, I have to say that those Corona commercials look like Heaven to me. I could easily spend an eternity on that beach.

I got my toes in the water,
Ass in the sand,
Not a worry in the world,
A cold beer in my hand,
Life is good today.
Life is good today.

Praying that there will be a lounge chair waiting for me on that beach in Heaven is... on this cowboys mind


(Zach Brown Band: Toes)