Topics:<\/b> Ambition; Anxiety; Career; Contentment; Fatherhood; Fear; Greed; Idolatry; Money; Motives; Retirement; Stress; Success; Work<\/p>\n
References:<\/b> Ecclesiastes 4:8; 5:10; Matthew 6:19\u201334; Luke 12:22\u201334; Philippians 4:10\u201319<\/p>\n
His health was in tatters and his life mired in financial wrangles, but Frank Sinatra refused to stop giving concerts. \u201cI\u2019ve got to earn more money,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
His performances, sad to say, were becoming more and more uneven. Uncertain of his memory, he became dependent on teleprompters. When his daughter, Tina, saw her father at Desert Inn in Las Vegas, he struggled through the show and felt so sick at the end that he needed oxygen from a tank that he kept on hand. At another show he forgot the lyrics to \u201cSecond Time Around,\u201d a ballad he had sung a thousand times. His adoring audience finished it for him.<\/p>\n
\u201cI couldn\u2019t bear to see Dad struggle,\u201d Tina said. \u201cI remembered all the times he had repeated the old boxing maxim \u2018You gotta get out before you hit the mat.\u2019 He wanted to retire at the top of his game, and I always thought he would know when his time came, but in pushing eighty he lost track of when to quit. After seeing one too many of these fiascoes, I told him, \u2018Pop, you can stop now; you don\u2019t have to stay on the road.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n
With a stricken expression he said, \u201cNo, I\u2019ve got to earn more money. I have to make sure everyone is taken care of.\u201d<\/p>\n
Since Sinatra\u2019s death, there has been constant family wrangling over his fortune.<\/p>\n
\u2014Tina Sinatra with Jeff Coplon, My Father\u2019s Daughter<\/i> (Simon & Schuster, 2000)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Topics: Ambition; Anxiety; Career; Contentment; Fatherhood; Fear; Greed; Idolatry; Money; Motives; Retirement; Stress; Success; Work References: Ecclesiastes 4:8; 5:10; Matthew 6:19\u201334; Luke 12:22\u201334; Philippians 4:10\u201319 His health was in tatters and his life mired in financial wrangles, but Frank Sinatra refused to stop giving concerts. \u201cI\u2019ve got to earn more money,\u201d he said. His performances, … Continue reading “KNOWING
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