Brett and me
October 7, 2009 (Wednesday)
Brett Favre is still playing football at age 40. On Monday night he and the Minnesota Vikings played against his old team, the Green Bay Packers, and he tried hard to minimize any significance to the matchup. Before the season ends, the Vikings will face the Packers at Green Bay. You can be sure you will hear from the crowd at that event.
Favre has been much-discussed since his retirement, because he has changed his mind 
several times and moved from retirement to active status, first with the Packers, then with the Jets, and now with the Vikings. There’s even a TV commercial about it, showing him trying to make up his mind about a purchase. He’s still standing there, mulling it over, after the store closes.
I sort of identify with him, because here I am pastor of a Houston church, and I supposedly retired almost 14 years ago. I retired in good faith, thinking that Wanda and I would build a house and move to Lake Limestone, 50 miles east of Waco, where she had been born and reared and I had been a 20-year-old pastor (at nearby Oletha Baptist Church). But circumstances changed our plans, and I became Interim Pastor at First Baptist Church Refugio twice, Interim Pastor at Bethel Baptist Church, Ingleside, where Wanda was also Music Director, Interim Pastor at FBC Rockport for one and one-half years, sandwiched in between pastorates at Timbergrove Baptist Church in Houston. All of a sudden I’m 78 years old and still thinking about what I’m going to preach next Sunday.
So, Brett, hang in there. Keep on keeping on. But I warn you, it will be a lot harder throwing that ball when you get to be 78.