YOU'RE GETTING OLD IF YOU REMEMBER: Being sent to the drugstore to test vacuum tubes for the TV or radio. When Kool-Aid was the only other drink for kids, other than milk and sodas. When…
Sermon Illustrations
GIVING UP ON BEAUTY One evening a little girl sat quietly as she watched her mother cover her face with cold cream. "Why do you put that cream on your face, Mommy?" "I do this…
BOTH SLEEPING Faces written in contentment and both are fast asleep Two hands touching Tiny child sprawls haphazardly upon Grandmother's lap Grandfather studies The aged wisdom, time lined face knurled fingers resting on perfection Those…
HOW CLOSE CAN WE GET? At their fiftieth anniversary, I asked my grandfather how he and my grandmother lasted fifty years. "It's simple," he said. "We married for keeps." It really is that simple. Every…
A THOUSAND MARBLES The older I get, the more I enjoy Saturday mornings. Perhaps it's the quiet solitude that comes with being the first to rise, or maybe it's the unbounded joy of not having…
COLD BATHROOM An eighty-year-old man went to his doctor for his annual physical. All of his tests came back with normal results. His doctor said, "Everything looks great physically. How are you doing mentally and…
STAGES OF MALE GROWTH The three stages of growth for the human male: He believes in Santa Claus. He doesn't believe in Santa Claus. He is Santa Claus.
MISSISSIPPI MEMORIES I wish more than anything that I could be in Mississippi for that is home to me to talk to old friends and strangers in the way. I wish I could take a…
LOVE THAT SURVIVES You can see them alongside the shuffleboard courts in Florida or on the porches of the old folks' homes up north: and old man with snow-white hair, a little hard of hearing,…
DEFEATING AGE There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source,…
THREE OLD MEN Three old men were sitting on a bench in Florida when a reporter approached them. "I wonder if you three would be willing to do an interview and tell us your secret…
FEELING HIS OAT BRAN "I didn't realize that I was getting old until yesterday. I was in my car waiting for my wife to come out of the grocery store, and when I saw this…
LIVELY ACTING Yogi Berra is said to have made the comment, having seen a Steve McQueen movie: "He must have made that before he died."
YOUTHFUL REASONING ADVANTAGE Parents have a distinct disadvantage in reasoning with their teens; they are not young enough to know everything. Similar to "TOO OLD TO KNOW IT ALL," in the May of 1996 issue…
Aging | Change | Giftedness | Gifts | Growth | Maturity | Sanctification | Self | Short Shorts | Sin
MORE LIKE OURSELVES We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves. -- May Lamberton Becker
WRESTLING WITH GOD Preparing to take religious vows, a young novice asked the oldest member of the order, "Father, do you still wrestle with the devil?" The elderly priest replied, "No, my son. I have…
CHURCH INTER-ESTS Miriam Dunson writes, "With so less interdependence in communities, the church needs to come to the forefront and focus on three major emphases as we go into the next century: first, intergenerational activities;…
AN UNINTENDED LISTENER An elderly man who had been fitted with a hearing aid a week earlier returned to his doctor's office for a checkup. "How do you like the hearing aid?" the doctor asked.…
MOM'S OLD DAUGHTERS A 100 year old woman was honored at a birthday celebration by her four daughters. She was asked if she felt that old. She looked around the room and then gave her…
WASTED AGES We must not waste our youth on the young or our retirement on the old. Source Unknown