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It Finally Happened

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I’m not sure when it began to happen. It seems like it was around October or November of last year. But sometime around then I started getting really old. For years I’ve been looking in the mirror at some weird old man and believing he stays in there when I walk away, but last year, he caught up with me. He looked so old, I was certain I could out run him, but I found out that old man was quicker than he looked!

I blame our grandchildren for this sudden arrival of old age. Until they came along, I was hip to all the groovy jive. You dig? But now everything is an acronym. “LOL,” “ASAP,” “YOLO,” “FOMO,” and others that are completely inappropriate. Occasionally kids my grandchildren’s age speak complete sentences and never use any actual words! I also learned that these letters strung together aren’t acronyms. It is called “initialism!” So, I’m not just old, I’m a monolingual relic!

Getting old is not so bad. Being old is horrible! People act like you can’t carry your groceries. They comment on the way you park. They talk louder when you show up. When you drop things, they say, “Let me get that so you don’t have to bend over!” If you forget an appointment, or a ball game, or anything else you hear, “I told you about that weeks ago! You said you were going to write it down!” Well, I meant to, but I couldn’t find my glasses because somebody moved them and there isn’t a pen in this entire house, so when I was looking for all that, I forgot what it was I was supposed to write down!

Heaven, forbid you have a doctor visit! The first thing they ask is, “Have you fallen recently?” My favorite is, “Do you feel safe at Home?” And of course, before any medical procedure you’re asked, “Is there anything loose in your mouth that needs to come out?” My tongues pretty loose! Should I take that out?

When you’re old, you just expect all this and accept it for what it is. Then you get together with your friends, or breakfast buddies at Hardees and laugh about it as the conversation turns from that topic to how many times you got up last night to go to the bathroom. I agree with a wise “older” woman who once told me, “Whoever said these were the ‘Golden Years’ was lying!”

Maybe that is why Solomon said in Ecclesiastes 12:1, “Remember now thy creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, ‘I have no pleasure in them.” We can deny the truth of what Solomon is saying all day long. We can attempt to say as did Caleb in Joshua 14:10, 11, “… and now, look, I am (insert your age here) years old. As yet, I am as strong this day as I was in the day … as my strength was then, even so is my strength now…” We can say that, but we would be wrong.

We cannot go back and change a thing, but we can go forward with the time we have left and serve the Lord fully with these tired, beat-up, exhausted bodies. We can do as Paul said and, “press on for the mark of the high calling in Jesus Christ!” Just because we might be old, doesn’t mean we have to quit! It just means we have to “Work smarter!” Keep pressing on, serving the Lord. And here’s something that might help with one of those “Golden Years” issues: Buy enough cheap pairs of reading glasses so you can keep a set in every room of the house! If you lose one, another is bound to pop up somewhere! We’ll “see” you Sunday!



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