You
Know You Are Getting Old When…
Preparation
for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is
empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement. D.L. Moody
George Macdonald
said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless
hands', but instead I find old people
in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want
to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life. Elisabeth Elliott
I
am getting old. Instead of receiving
emails from Match.com, I started receiving ones from SeniorPeopleMeet.com. The
thing I was trying to figure out is; how do they know I am old. Last time I checked I wasn’t giving out my
birth date.
The
other day I received a notice that I am now eligible for AARP. Do I really want to become a card carrying
member of the American Association of Retired Persons? I am not even close to retirement and when I
get there it probably won’t happen because there will be no social security
left since I will be in line with every other Baby Boomer and we are the
largest group of Senior Citizens ever.
I
am kind of starting to understand what it means to be over-the-hill. It’s kind of like you reach the peak and it’s
all downhill from there. I started
realizing this phenomenon when a young person called me Ma’am. Then I read that the definition of Ma’am is a
British term for addressing the queen or a royal princess. Things started looking up.
The
reality is we are all going to grow old.
As soon as we are born we are getting older. Age became a factor in our lives when Adam
and Eve ate the apple in the garden.
They would have lived forever young in the Garden of Eden but for disobedience,
a snake and an apple.
When
you stop and think about it, getting old doesn’t have to be a bad thing. We can gain wisdom in our latter years. If we are smart we will have spent a great
deal of time with God and He will have taught us how to age gracefully and with
integrity and character. We will have
learned to love others and to give with our heart.
I
think I will go ahead and join AARP but I am going to call it Adopt A Reading
Program instead. If my reading program
includes the greatest Book ever written, the Bible, then I can age gracefully
with integrity.
Prayer for the Day: Heavenly
Father, getting older in life can sometimes be a challenge. It gets harder to get up in the morning, my
limbs don’t work as well as they did when I was 20 and my memory gets shorter
every day. The one thing I know about
aging is that You love me no matter what that number is and You are there when
life becomes a challenge. I praise You
for loving me in my old age. I want to
glorify You in every stage of my life.
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