November 5, 2022

EXIT  SIGNS

We need exit signs - indications of where to go when we want to leave.

It's nice to know yawns work.

Watching watches work.

When we want to leave a party, we know words work. "Well, I have to get up early tomorrow morning. Thanks for a wonderful evening together."

People shoot out of churches and ball games - after communion - or after the 7th inning.

Then there are the exit signs before death - wrinkles, squinting, loss of breath, losing my hearing - aches and pains - there is going to be an end to all this.

My brother always liked to park his car - in the back - or off to the side - of a movie theater,  Why? Well after the movie - he'd rush to the side exit door - while most people headed for the front door.  And he made an early exit from life - cancer at 51.

EXIT signs.

We want to know when the sermon or the story is going to end.

Peter Jennings asked General Tommy Franks when we were going into Iraq. He answered: "Two questions I ask: Do we have enough soldiers to win the war - and do we have enough soldiers to keep the peace?"

Did anyone ask: "Do we have an exit strategy?"

When we have time to ponder life do we ever ask, "How many entrances in life, do we wish we never made?"

How about the question: "Any wrong exits?"

"The party's over."  Sometimes to hear that is good news; sometimes it's bad news."

What are the entrance signs to getting married?

What are the exit signs for ending a marriage?

What are the exit signs of life?

Maybe the exit signs we ought to looking for are the ones that say, "Rest area ahead."