Calm before the Storm

I don’t know how I will fare with about 10 hours’ long seminar over one and a half days. Even preaching for 37 minutes and a song of response for 4 minutes took me three days to recover and even now I am not fully recovered from the exertions of last Sunday. But tomorrow I will speaking for one hour 15 minutes talk followed by an hour long Q & A. We will see how it goes. We are supposed to have a 3 hour break from 4.30pm to 7.30pm and then another two and a half hours long sessions with the last hour on a workshop.

If I drive home I will be back by midnight and back to the same place by 8.30am Saturday morning. I am expected to return to my former church for one last time, but I told the youth leader that I would be conducting a two day seminar in the weekend and let’s see whether I could still make it to church this Sunday. 

I guess it is not the work, so far so good but it is the recovery time involved from each ministry or excursion to outstation. It does not help that our Sabah’s roads are poorly maintained which means one has to be extra careful especially at night. But God is good. As long as I am able to do it, I will do it but it looks increasingly that I will be staying home most of the time, writing books as I have three or four more book projects in mind. 

After John’s Gospel, it could be Romans and if I could write on Romans it means the big three of the NT are done, John’s Gospel, Galatians and Romans. After that, my one month writer’s scholarship is on the Psalms, in English, but I could write concurrently in Malay and we will see as well. 

By 2028, if I am still at home with no where else to go, I will embark on the last book of the Bible, John’s Revelation and I hope to publish that when I turn 65 years old, a good age for real retirement, if there is such a thing for me as a servant of the Lord. Maranatha!