{"id":614,"date":"2019-03-26T17:30:10","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T23:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=614"},"modified":"2019-03-26T14:48:35","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T20:48:35","slug":"no-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=614","title":{"rendered":"No Retirement!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Today I was inspired by an email from Frank Dennis, \u201cretired\u201d medical missionary. Frank is an orthopedic surgeon and served for a number of years in Taiwan. Paragraphs like this inspire me:
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We have been well. Sally is tired much of the time… On 3\/7 I had an inguinal hernia repaired by a very nice robot and a hanky sized piece of mesh, pretty sore for 3 days and now like it never happened! <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am still sleeping on ice which numbs my right sacroiliac joint. I make another trip to the freezer<\/g> about\u00a03 a.m.\u00a0I will get another injection 4\/2 in hopes it will promote healing. I am fine during the day except it hurts to stand. When I preach I keep moving around a little. There<\/g> is gradual improvement and I am not disabled.<\/em>
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Frank and Sally are at least 90<\/strong>. They never complain. Did you notice \u201cwhen <\/em>I preach\u201d? And, \u201cI am not disabled.\u201d Frank still preaches twice a month when he’s in town and frequently travels elsewhere, including back to Taiwan. Here is the tex<\/g>t of one of his recent sermons–Elijah’s burnout<\/a>. And there are no pictures of Sally not smiling! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Frank and Sally Dennis, Colorado Springs, CO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Frank is on my list of heroes who never quit, including Navigator Jim Downing<\/a> who returned from his last speaking tour just two months before passing away at age 104 1\/2. My Uncle Sam was sending out inspirational emails until three weeks before his passing at age 99. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

12 <\/em><\/sup>\u00a0The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon;
<\/em>13 <\/em><\/sup> planted in the house of the LORD, they will flourish in the courts of our God.
<\/em>14 <\/em><\/sup>\u00a0They will still bear fruit in old age, they will stay fresh and green,
<\/em>15 <\/em><\/sup> proclaiming, \u201cThe LORD is upright; he is my Rock, and there is no wickedness in him.\u201d (Psalm 92.12 – 15, NIV)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today I was inspired by an email from Frank Dennis, \u201cretired\u201d medical missionary. Frank is an orthopedic surgeon and served for a number of years in Taiwan. Paragraphs like this inspire me: We have been well. Sally is tired much of the time… On 3\/7 I had an inguinal hernia repaired by a very nice … Continue reading No Retirement!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-9U","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":617,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions\/617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}