The Joy Ride #13

This is the Truth Network. In this podcast, you will hear funny stories, exchanges, and thought-provoking moments that will amuse you, make you smile, and draw you closer to Jesus Christ in your journey of life. I have two questions for you. What is your legacy, and are you living the type of legacy that you want to leave? Now, while you're thinking about your answers, let's listen to Jim as he shares with the guys what his legacy is. Well, my legacy really began well before my grandfather, but that's where I thought of it first, because I have his name.

I'm the third. And the first thing that I thought of was my love for the military, because my grandfather fought in World War I. He was in the first anti-aircraft battalion that the United States ever had, and he was in Company A. The Great War. Yes, the Great War.

And that's part of what Trigger does when I listen to that earlier this week. And my father was in World War II. He was a dentist. And my mother probably did more fighting in World War II than my father did.

So I always had that as a legacy. And then when I tried to get in the military, the first time I was too blind, I went to the Citadel on a naval scholarship, ROTC scholarship, but I'm colorblind. So they said, sorry, you can't stay.

Well, I can stay, but you can't go on our nickel. And that was the first time I tried. I tried again in my 30s, and at that point I was too fat. And I really wasn't, but their chart was, yeah, we won't get into BMI and all that stuff. And then the last time I tried, if I'd been Catholic, I could have gotten in because they would waive the age, but the last time I was too old because I was Protestant.

So that, for decades, they would waive your age if you were Catholic as a chaplain because they needed chaplains desperately, and Catholics can go either way, but for some reason, Catholics don't like to be blessed by Protestants who don't know what they're doing anyway. Right? No. Darren wants to say something so bad. I'm glad he's over in the corner hiding. But that was my first thought. But then I got to thinking deeper, and my grandmother would tell me about pastors that had been deep. I mean, great-great-grandfather was a Baptist pastor. My grandfather and father were both Presbyterian deacons and elders.

Sooner or later we'll find out what's so funny. It was a while ago. And the greatest legacy they gave me was my name in Christ. I love my name. I gave it to my son. My son paid me a great compliment, and my father as well, in that he said that if he had a son, he was going to start over at Junior, which is my father, because he lived with him a while and recognized the great man that he was. And both my grandfather and my father were men that I would be proud to be connected with, and both spiritually and in every other respect, they were men of integrity, and that was a legacy. Thank you, Jim, for most of that.