"Soooo..you're telling me there's a chance?"..that tomorrow is the end of the world

 Okay, so I'll go ahead and tell ya right off the bat that I am pretty certain that the world will not end tomorrow.  Here's a few reasons why...

If you do want to put any kind of stock in the Mayan calendar then you need to understand that there has yet to be a unified interpretation that the calendar even shows that the world ends tomorrow...

If you want to put any kind of stock in the Mayan religion at all then just keep in mind that the Mayans practiced human sacrifice and well...that's just not real cool by any standard and it makes me strongly doubt that they had any kind of hotline to the ultimate decision maker about the date of the end of the world..

I am a Christ follower and I have found that the words Jesus spoke have proven to be very reliable and trustworthy in my life...he said that no man will know the day or the hour of the end..
so based on the words of Jesus (though any day could potentially be the "end of the world"), the more people convinced that it is a particular day, the more likely that that mentioned day is NOT the day...

"So you're telling me there's a chance.." you may still be saying.. yeah, there may still be a chance but the chances are more like those of Mary Swanson falling in love with our beloved Lloyd Christmas....you know..more like one in a million.

The Jim Clause

I have a friend named Jim.  He is on the volunteer landscaping team at my church and because of his humility and servant's heart, I admire him greatly.  Jim is one of three brothers and over the past five years, the other two brothers have passed away.  I sang at both of their funerals.  I have also given Jim my word that no matter where I am, when he passes away I will also sing at his funeral.  In fact, we 'upped the ante' just this last week when Jim asked me if I would not only sing at his funeral, but also to officiate his funeral.
I'm not sure how long it's gonna be before I am required to deliver my end of the deal with Jim.  I hope it's a really long time from now and if it is, I can't guarantee that I'll be living in the same city or state as Jim.  But, no matter where I am or who I am working for, I have decided to insert a "Jim Clause" on the front of any contract or obligation outside of that to God or my wife or my sons and daughter.
The "Jim Clause" reads something like this..
"no matter where I am, or who I am working for, or what my contractual obligations are, if Jim dies, then I will drop everything I am doing and travel as far as I need to in order to fulfill my promise to my friend Jim"
I think I may have the "Jim Clause" literally written into whatever  contract that I may sign in the near future because it reminds me that people and our promises to them, especially in the most important seasons of life, will always be more important than any other obligation that we may commit ourselves to.