Growing Old Growing Up s strange and mysterious to me, and I'm not quite sure I've got a handle on it yet. It surrounds me -- I feel it in my back when I get up and I see it in my hair when I spot another strand that's gray.
Change is an inevitable part of life. We're being shaped every minute we live. Every thought, every decision, every action, every emotion, every response is shaping us into one kind of person or another. Either we're moving toward likeness to Christ or away from Him into some sort of caricature of the person God intended us to be.
This week 5 sisterfriends joined me in talking about the growing old and growing up- listen in and be blessed. And In the meantime, aging is the accumulation of more stories of the faithfulness of God and a display of God's determination to love and care for his own.
When wrinkles and weakness come with age
And life with its stress takes a toll,
Yet beauty and vigor can still be seen
When Jesus gives peace to one's soul. —D. De Haan
"Grow up" is what the young are told—"age gracefully" when growing old.
